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- - The cognitive gadgets theory aims to update evolutionary psychology by shifting from a traditional nativist and internalist perspective to one that focuses on cultural influences and how they shape our cognitive tools.
- - This new approach is referred to as "cultural evolutionary psychology," but it still holds onto some debated ideas from the original neo-Darwinian framework.
- - The author argues that these lingering neo-Darwinian assumptions are not essential to the cognitive gadgets theory and can be removed without losing important concepts.
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The cognitive gadgets theory proposes to reform evolutionary psychology by replacing the standard nativist and internalist approach to modularity with a cultural constructivist one. However, the resulting "cultural evolutionary psychology" still maintains some controversial aspects of the original neo-Darwinian paradigm. These assumptions are unnecessary to the cognitive gadgets theory and can be eliminated without significant conceptual loss.
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