TY - JOUR AU - Tindale, R. Scott AB - 01 046139 3/9/04 3:33 pm Page 299 Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 2004 Vol 7(4) 299–304 Evolutionary/Adaptive Thinking as a Meta-theory for Systematic Group Research: An Extended ‘Fungus-eater’ Approach Tatsuya Kameda Hokkaido University R. Scott Tindale Loyola University, Chicago A S ENVISIONED by Aristotle thousands of years potentially play one of the most central roles in ago, human life is essentially embedded in human and social sciences. Because of the space social groups. Modern brain research is rapidly allowed, our following arguments and reviews of accumulating evidence suggesting that many of the relevant literature are in no way exhaustive our cognitive and emotional faculties may have but only illustrative. Readers who are intrigued, been designed to solve recurrent adaptive hopefully, by our arguments are referred to problems specifically posed by social life (e.g. the rapidly accumulating literature, including Damasio, 1994; Etcoff, Freeman, & Cave, 1991; edited volumes by Barkow et al. (1992), Betzig Gallese & Goldman, 1998). Over the last 10 (1997), Simpson & Kenrick (1997), and inter- years, such an evolutionary/adaptive perspec- disciplinary journals such as Evolution and tive has begun to produce a fundamental Human Behavior and Human Nature. change in the way human cognitions and behaviors TI - Evolutionary/Adaptive Thinking as a Meta-theory for Systematic Group Research: An Extended ‘Fungus-eater’ Approach JF - Group Processes & Intergroup Relations DO - 10.1177/1368430204046139 DA - 2004-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/evolutionary-adaptive-thinking-as-a-meta-theory-for-systematic-group-4ya52xm3FO SP - 299 EP - 304 VL - 7 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -