When the environment in which an organism lives deviates in some essential way from that to which it is adapted, this is described as “evolutionary mismatch,” or “evolutionary novelty.” The notion of mismatch plays an important role, explicitly or implicitly, in evolution-informed cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and medicine. The evolutionary novelty of our contemporary environment is thought to have significant implications for our health and well-being. However, scientists have generally been working without a clear definition of mismatch. This paper defines mismatch as deviations in the environment that render biological traits unable, or impaired in their ability, to produce their selected effects (i.e., to perform their proper functions in Neander’s sense). The machinery developed by Millikan in connection with her account of proper function, and with her related teleosemantic account of representation, is used to identify four major types, and several subtypes, of evolutionary mismatch. While the taxonomy offered here does not in itself resolve any scientific debates, the hope is that it can be used to better formulate empirical hypotheses concerning the effects of mismatch. To illustrate, it is used to show that the controversial hypothesis that general intelligence evolved as an adaptation to handle evolutionary novelty can, contra some critics, be formulated in a conceptually coherent way.

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进化失配的远程功能解释

当生物体生活的环境与其适应的环境在某些基本方面发生偏离时，这被描述为“进化不匹配”或“进化新奇”。不匹配的概念在进化知情的认知心理学、临床心理学和医学中显着或隐含地发挥着重要作用。我们当代环境的进化新颖性被认为对我们的健康和福祉具有重大影响。然而，科学家们的工作通常没有明确的失配定义。本文将错配定义为环境中的偏差，导致生物特征无法或能力受损，以产生其选定的效果（即，执行尼安德意义上的适当功能）。密立根根据她对适当功能的描述以及她对表征的相关远程语义描述而开发的机制，用于识别进化不匹配的四种主要类型和几种亚型。虽然这里提供的分类法本身并不能解决任何科学争论，但希望它可以用来更好地制定关于不匹配影响的经验假设。为了说明这一点，它被用来表明有争议的假设，即通用智能进化为处理进化新颖性的一种适应，与一些批评者相反，可以以概念上连贯的方式来表述。虽然这里提供的分类法本身并不能解决任何科学争论，但希望它可以用来更好地制定关于不匹配影响的经验假设。为了说明这一点，它被用来表明有争议的假设，即通用智能进化为处理进化新颖性的一种适应，与一些批评者相反，可以以概念上连贯的方式来表述。虽然这里提供的分类法本身并不能解决任何科学争论，但希望它可以用来更好地制定关于不匹配影响的经验假设。为了说明这一点，它被用来表明有争议的假设，即通用智能进化为处理进化新颖性的一种适应，与一些批评者相反，可以以概念上连贯的方式来表述。