Our Evolving Brains

June 27, 2012
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Is the human brain continuing to evolve? In what ways does it adapt to changing conditions? Who else is asking these questions, and what answers are they finding? PsychTable.org is a new, online project co-created by Daniel Glass ’12g (Psychology), with Niruban Balachandran (Rutgers University) and Timothy Nabzdyk (Mississippi State University and SUNY Buffalo), to collect information related to these issues. Evolved psychological adaptations (EPAs) of the human mind are the focus of Glass’s research, and PsychTable.org is the first international collaborative endeavor to classify them. The project, which lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and anthropology, allows scientists, educators, and students in each of these fields, as well as the general public, to connect directly and share information. Still in its infancy, it has already been endorsed by some of the top evolutionary psychologists and other behavioral researchers in the field, including Robert Kurzban (University of Pennsylvania) and Steven Pinker (Harvard University).

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