Machery, Edouard (2006) Massive Modularity and Brain Evolution. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Quartz (2002) argues that some recent findings about the evolution of the brain (Finlay & Darlington, 1995) are inconsistent with evolutionary psychologists’ massive modularity hypothesis. In substance, Quartz contends that since the volume of the neocortex evolved in a concerted manner, natural selection did not act on neocortical systems independently of each other, which is a necessary condition for the massive modularity of our cognition to be true. I argue however that Quartz’s argument fails to undermine the massive modularity hypothesis.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Machery, Edouard
Keywords:	Brain evolution, massive modularity, allometry, evolutionary psychology, neocortex
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Depositing User:	Prof. Edouard Machery
Date Deposited:	13 Oct 2006
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:14
Item ID:	2972
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Date:	2006
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2972

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