| This is of course, once again, a whole other book. However, such an organizing framework would help clarify the perspective of the person in the internet. Although this book starts with a gorilla - conversations between Koko and Penny Patterson using American Sign Language (Page 1) and ends with a million monkeys - the internet demonstrates that a million monkeys on a million typewriters will NOT over a million years produce all the works of Shakespeare (Page 255), there is no mention of evolutionary psychology in between. It could help in the theoretical interpretation of much of the empirical research. For example, the sections on detection of deception (Pages 49-53) and on need for trust (Pages 243-245) may make most sense in a species which must live in groups to survive in a world containing faster and stronger animals.
Note, by the way, that this book and the two mentioned above were written and edited by women. Evolutionary psychology not only provides a framework for the old questions but raises new questions. We were hunters and gatherers for most of our time on this planet. Or, more accurately, men were hunters and women were gatherers. There is considerable empirical evidence of resulting differences in cognitive skills. Will women be more at home on the internet, with its emphasis on multiprocessing, as men were more at home with the linearity of print?
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