Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Organs of Computation Steven Pinker 1

2 Phïlosophy in the Flesh George Lakoff 11

3 Parallel Memories: Putting Emotions Back into the Brain Joseph Ledoux 31

4 Sexual Selection and the Mind Geoffrey Miller 49

5 Rescuing Memory Steven Rose 63

6 How Is Personality Formed? Frank Sulloway 79

7 Mirror Neurons and Imitation Learning as the Driving Force Behind "the Great Leap Forward" in Human Evolution V. S. Ramachandran 101

8 A Self Worth Having Nicholas Humphrey 113

9 You Can't Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel Philip Zimbardo 129

10 The Neurology of Self-Awareness V. S. Ramachandran 147

11 Eudaemonia: The Good Life Martin Seligman 153

12 What Are Numbers, Really? A Cerebral Basis for Number Sense Stanislas Dehaene 169

13 The Assortative Mating Theory Simon Baron-Cohen 181

14 Toxo: The Parasite that Is Manipulating Human Behavior Robert Sapolsky 191

15 Amazing Babies Alison Gopnik 201

16 Signatures of Consciousness Stanislas Dehaene 217

17 How Can Educated People Continue to Be Radical Environmentalists? David Lykken 239

18 Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion Jonathan Haidt 251