ABSTRACT
This chapter examines both human cognition and development at the level of learning theory and adult development/adaptation to new social formations. The Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) term was coined, for the specific purpose of opposition, by Tooby and Cosmides (1992). Any tendency toward socio-biology is viewed with suspicion on the grounds that it 'might' reassert some spurious dimension of the 'natural' to limit human freedom and to legitimise 'conventions' of power. The aims and the claims of evolutionary psychology are ambitious. The ontological status of the living clearly points to the emergence of an integrated physical-semantic causal dimension. The Gibsons are not explicitly evolutionary psychologists; they are explicitly radical ecologists. Embodiment and ecological theorists of perception correctly reject the idea that stimuli are impoverished and must be somehow 'worked up' by processing. Social and cultural theorists must concede that the first relationships between the neonate, its carer and its culture are bio-structurally determined.
