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The Debated Mind

by Harvey Whitehouse · 2001

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Questioning how the human mind influences the content and organisation of culture, these essays pitches the arguments for nativism (proposed by evolutionary psychologists) against ethnographic perspectives.

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adult
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medium · 224 pages

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