Abstract

In his breakthrough work, the author overcomes the unfortunate legacy of Darwinian thought to the behavioral sciences and proposes a cognitive model of the human brain which is based on the commonplace observation that much of normal human behavior is maladaptive. While the Darwinian model is so useful in relating genetically engineered structures and functions to environmental contingencies of all other species, humans appear to be anomalous in their processing of information not according to their natural environment but according to linguistically shaped and socially determined psychological constructs - i.e., schemas.