title: Evolving the future by creating and adapting to novel environments.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. peter.lafreniere@umit.maine.edu http://umaine.edu/psychology/faculty/peter-lafreniere/
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: LaFreniere
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D001527:Behaviorism; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans