This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly important and fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, which attempts to understand the mind and behavior in terms of the evolutionary pressures that shaped them. The text carefully integrates evolutionary ideas with those of mainstream academic psychology to complement traditional courses and offers abundant critical evaluation. Topics covered include cognitive and social development, language, emotion, and evolutionary psychopathology. Each chapter features: Preview and list of key terms Text boxes containing interesting supplementary material Summary of key ideas Guide to further reading.
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This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly important and fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, which attempts to understand the mind and behaviour in terms of the evolutionary pressures that shaped it. The text carefully integrates evolutionary ideas with those of mainstream academic psychology to complement traditional courses and offers plenty of critical evaluation. Topics covered include cognitive and social development, language, emotion, and evolutionary psychopathology.Each chapter features: Preview and list of key terms Textboxes containing interesting supplementary material Summary of key ideas Guide to further reading
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Key concepts the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA), proximate and ultimate levels of explanation, the inherance of acquired characteristics, particulate, eugenics, Standard Social Science Model (SSSM), the Great Chain of Being (scala nature), sociobiology, modularity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
group socialisation theory, provisioning hypothesis, innate mental modules, social competition hypothesis, evolutionary psychopathology, social contract hypothesis, drinking task, derived memories, male adornments, learnability argument, parasite theory, clinically normal individuals, handicap hypothesis, evolutionary social psychology, inclusive fitness theory, kin altruism, behavioural geneticists, forager societies, blend model, innate modules, more surviving offspring, life history theory, modular account, standard social science model, reciprocal altruism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Queen, Robert Trivers, New York, Kung San, Richard Dawkins, George Williams, Margaret Mead, Paul Ekman, Randolph Nesse, New Zealand, South America, Steven Pinker, The Expression of the Emotions, Harvard Medical School, Oxford University Press, Ronald Fisher, Charles Darwin, Cookie Monster, Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation, Erasmus Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Groundhog Day, John Anderson, John Bowlby, John Maynard-Smith New!
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Key concepts the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA), proximate and ultimate levels of explanation, the inherance of acquired characteristics, particulate, eugenics, Standard Social Science Model (SSSM), the Great Chain of Being (scala nature), sociobiology, modularity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
group socialisation theory, provisioning hypothesis, innate mental modules, social competition hypothesis, evolutionary psychopathology, social contract hypothesis, drinking task, derived memories, male adornments, learnability argument, parasite theory, clinically normal individuals, handicap hypothesis, evolutionary social psychology, inclusive fitness theory, kin altruism, behavioural geneticists, forager societies, blend model, innate modules, more surviving offspring, life history theory, modular account, standard social science model, reciprocal altruism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Queen, Robert Trivers, New York, Kung San, Richard Dawkins, George Williams, Margaret Mead, Paul Ekman, Randolph Nesse, New Zealand, South America, Steven Pinker, The Expression of the Emotions, Harvard Medical School, Oxford University Press, Ronald Fisher, Charles Darwin, Cookie Monster, Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation, Erasmus Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Groundhog Day, John Anderson, John Bowlby, John Maynard-Smith New!
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
- The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins on 7 pages
- Evolutionary Social Psychology by Jeffry A. Simpson on 5 pages
- The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series) by Charles Darwin on 4 pages
- Moral Animal by Robert Wright on page 28, page 171, and Back Matter
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