Integrated Causal Model

From the SL4 Lexicon:

Integrated Causal Model (ICM):

Evolutionary psychologists Tooby and Cosmides' model of human behavior, created to displace the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM.) The Integrated Causal Model was first formally introduced in the article "The Psychological Foundations of Culture" in the venerable collection "The Adapted Mind". The Integrated Causal Model holds that the human mind is composed of a set of psychological adaptations to recurring evolutionary challenges in our ancestral environment. For more on Evolutionary Psychology and the Integrated Causal Model, see http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html. Steven Pinker, author of "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate", is a prominent supporter of the Integrated Causal Model. See also Complex Functional Adaptation, Cosmides and Tooby, Evolutionary Psychology.