ABSTRACT
First published in 1987. Evolutionary theory and learning theory have for a long time developed in quite separate traditions. The purpose of this book is partly to celebrate new developments in the two theories by displaying some of the work of this new breed of scholar. It is the editors’ hope that they can encourage others to look more carefully at the mechanisms that make learning an evolutionary consideration and evolution a learning theory consideration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Evolution and Learning Before Thorndike:
A Forgotten Epoch in the History of Behavioral Research
chapter |20 pages
A Comparison of Taste Aversion Learning in Humans and Other Vertebrates
Evolutionary Pressures in Common
chapter |28 pages
A Functional Behavioristic Approach to Aversively Motivated Behavior:
Predatory Imminence as a Determinant of the Topography of Defensive Behavior
chapter |25 pages
Reproductive Behavior:
A Potential Model System for Adaptive Specializations in Learning
