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Brase (2004, Psychology Press book chapter) Opening paragraph:
One of the more distinctive characteristics of evolutionary approaches to understanding human reasoning (or, indeed, to understanding the human mind in general) is its insistence on domain specificity. That is, evolutionary accounts of human reasoning propose that the vast bulk of reasoning that people normally engage in is done by cognitive processes that are specialized to work within a specific topic area (i.e., domain). The best known of these accounts is the work by Cosmides & Tooby (1989, 1992), that focuses on reasoning about social exchanges. …