This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach by scientists and philosophers that reveals the stamp of evolution on everyday life: how kinship unravels nurture, how family life affects the personalities we acquire, how our minds develop to negotiate social hierarchies, whether we decide to eat or not, what qualities we prefer in our sexual and marriage patterns, how we name and raise our children, how our thoughts and emotions are framed to make adaptive decisions, and methods for identifying evolved adaptations of the human life-cycle. It serves as an advanced text for students and scholars that critiques the dominating work of Buss, Cosmides and Tooby, Dennett, and Pinker. Taking the field beyond the narrow and contentious innatist-adaptionist view of the mind, it supplies a much sought-after interactional, `biopsycho-sociocultural' paradigm using a variety of evidence to converge on carefully reasoned conclusions.
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New York, Oxford University Press, The Adapted Mind, Academic Press, Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Personality, Child Development, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Conceptual Challenges, Angel Park, Five Factor Model, American Psychologist, Psychological Inquiry, Lawrence Erlbaum, American Naturalist, Maynard Smith, Princeton University Press, Prisoner's Dilemma, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Quarterly Review, Big Five, Psychological Review, Research Group, University of Chicago Press New!
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- The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow on 10 pages
- Sociobiology, Sex, and Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Harmon R. Holcomb III on 6 pages
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 5 pages
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta on page 32, page 36, and page 37
- Human Nature by Alice Anderson on page 33, page 175, and page 264
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- Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human (Science and Cultural Theory) by Barbara Herrnstein Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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