Editing Evolutionary psychology (section)

===Modularity of mind===
{{Main|Modularity of mind}}
Evolutionary psychologists generally presume that, like the body, the mind is made up of many evolved modular adaptations,<ref name=Kurzban-R-2011>{{cite book |last=Kurzban |first=Robert |year=2011 |title=Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=NJ |isbn=9780691146744}}</ref> although there is some disagreement within the discipline regarding the degree of general plasticity, or "generality," of some modules.<ref name=AmPs2010>{{Cite journal | last1 = Confer | first1 = J. C. | last2 = Easton | first2 = J. A. | last3 = Fleischman | first3 = D. S. | last4 = Goetz | first4 = C. D. | last5 = Lewis | first5 = D. M. G. | last6 = Perilloux | first6 = C. | last7 = Buss | first7 = D. M. | doi = 10.1037/a0018413 | title = Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations | journal = American Psychologist | volume = 65 | issue = 2 | pages = 110–26 | year = 2010 | pmid =  20141266| url = http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Group/BussLAB/pdffiles/evolutionary_psychology_AP_2010.pdf| citeseerx = 10.1.1.601.8691 }}</ref> It has been suggested that modularity evolves because, compared to non-modular networks, it would have conferred an advantage in terms of fitness<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cosmides |first1=Leda |last2=Tooby |first2=John |title=The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture |year=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |pages=163–228 |chapter=Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange }}</ref> and because connection costs are lower.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clune |first1=Jeff |last2=Mouret |first2=Jean-Baptiste |last3=Lipson |first3=Hod |year=2013 |title=The evolutionary origins of modularity |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society |volume=280 |issue=1755 |page=20122863|doi=10.1098/rspb.2012.2863 |pmid=23363632 |pmc=3574393 |arxiv=1207.2743}}</ref>

In contrast, some academics argue that it is unnecessary to posit the existence of highly domain specific modules, and, suggest that the neural anatomy of the brain supports a model based on more domain general faculties and processes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Panksepp |first1=Jaak |last2=Panksepp |first2=Jules B. |year=2000 |title=The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology|journal=Evolution and Cognition |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=108–31 |url=http://www.flyfishingdevon.co.uk/salmon/year3/psy364-intro-psychobiology/panksepp_seven_sins.pdf |access-date=15 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Buller |first1=David J. |last2=Hardcastle |first2=Valerie Gray |editor1-first=David J. |editor1-last=Buller |title=Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology And The Persistent Quest For Human Nature |year=2005 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-262-02579-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/adaptingminds00davi/page/127 127–201] |chapter=Modularity |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQ5MGDvn8eIC&pg=PA127 |url=https://archive.org/details/adaptingminds00davi/page/127 }}</ref> Moreover, empirical support for the domain-specific theory stems almost entirely from performance on variations of the [[Wason selection task]] which is extremely limited in scope as it only tests one subtype of deductive reasoning.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davies |first1=Paul Sheldon |last2=Fetzer |first2=James H. |last3=Foster |first3=Thomas R. |year=1995 |title=Logical reasoning and domain specificity |journal=[[Biology and Philosophy]] |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=1–37 |doi=10.1007/BF00851985 |s2cid=83429932 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Brien |first1=David |last2=Manfrinati |first2=Angela |editor1-first=Mike |editor1-last=Oaksford |editor2-last=Chater |editor2-first=Nick |title=Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking |year=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-923329-8 |pages=39–54 |chapter=The Mental Logic Theory of Conditional Propositions |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQSDOqAvXIoC&pg=PA47 }}</ref>