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Evolving the future by creating and adapting to novel environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Peter LaFreniere
Peter LaFreniere*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. peter.lafreniere@umit.maine.eduhttp://umaine.edu/psychology/faculty/peter-lafreniere/
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Abstract

Adaptation demands effective responses to both recurrent and novel environmental challenges. Developmental plasticity and domain-general mechanisms have important consequences with respect to our human capacity for imagining, creating, and adapting to novel environments. They facilitate the evolution of any cognitive mechanism, no matter how opportunistic, flexible, or domain-general, that is able to solve new problems or achieve new goals.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 429 - 430
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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