Hunter Honeycutt

TL;DR: Recent advances in genetics, embryology, and developmental biology that have transformed contemporary developmental and evolutionary theory are reviewed and how these advances challenge gene-centered explanations of human behavior that ignore the complex, highly coordinated system of regulatory dynamics involved in development and evolution is explored.

TL;DR: Results provide the first evidence that embryos are sensitive to redundant, bimodal information and that it can facilitate learning during the prenatal period.

TL;DR: Results are the first to demonstrate that redundantly specified information is remembered longer and reactivated more easily than the same information presented unimodally and further evidence of the salience of intersensory redundancy in guiding selective attention and perceptual learning during early development.

TL;DR: Results indicate that 12 hr unimodal exposure to patterned light does not support prenatal auditory learning when it is followed by 12 hr exposure to multimodal stimulation (light-->multimodal), but can facilitate prenatal auditorylearning when it are followed by unimodals exposure to the call alone ( light-->call).

TL;DR: It is argued that evolutionary psychology currently offers no coherent framework for how to genetic, environmental, and experiential factors into a theory of behavioral or cognitive phenotypes, resulting in an almost exclusive focus on adaptationist accounts of evolution by natural selection.