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COGS-Q 380: EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COGNITION (3 credits)

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Review of human cognitive and behavioral evolution. Theoretical perspectives will be critically evaluated. Explores sociality, altruism, language, human sexual behavior, reasoning, morality and ethics, mental 'disease,' diet, search, cultural evolution, human brain evolution, emergence and "complex adaptive systems", and a historical review of evolutionary perspectives on these topics