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This Chapter Introduces The Volume Interdisciplinary Perspectives And Advances In Understanding Adaptive Memory. That False Memory May Also Be Adaptive Is Discussed In Many Chapters. This Proposition Joins New Emergent Positions And Arguments Regarding Adaptive Memory Which Are Advanced Via Converging Perspectives From Within Psychology And Related Disciplines Including Forensic Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Biology, And Anthropology. This Book Highlights Another Convergence That A Greater Understanding Of Memory Performance Requires That Researchers Emphasize Memorial Processes, Functions Of Memory And Their Intersection. In Doing So, Clear Connections Between Memory Theory And Evolutionary Science Are Established Across Four Sections 1) Scenario Studies, (2) Understanding Adaptive Memory Through The Lenses Of Anthropology And Comparative Psychology, (3) Age-related Perspectives In Understanding Adaptive Memory, And (4) Emerging Perspectives On Adaptive Memory: Cognitive Neuroscience And Forensic Science. Overall, This Volume Offers An Expansive Treatment Of The Study Of Adaptive Memory, Survival Processing, And Related Phenomena That Receive An Integrative Analysis In The Concluding Chapter-- Provided By Publisher.