Written in a lively and engaging manner, this new work places evolutionary psychology within the broad sweep of our primate heritage and the full scope of our evolutionary story. Beginning with the basics of evolution, the book first unpacks the far-ranging saga of human evolution, then moves on to examine motor behavior and emotions, sexual behavior and mate selection, and higher cognition.
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AN ENGAGING, COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY!
This lucid and exceptionally clear synthesis draws on experimental findings in contemporary Psychology, Primatology, Archeology, Evolutionary Biology, and Neuroscience, as well as History and Philosophy, to present a comprehensive overview of the exciting field of Evolutionary Psychology.
Landmark contributions from historical figures and key contributions from contemporary researchers are highlighted throughout. The author also underscores controversies and flashpoints with numerous citations from the scientific literature as well as a frank discussion of the critiques of the field.
WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE TO SAY
"I know of no other book that has done such a good job of integrating knowledge from human archaeology and primatology into a text on evolutionary psychology. The writing is clear and easy to understand. Students will like this text."
—Charles Crawford, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
"The writing style is also a pleasure to read: straightforward with a nice leavening of wit, anecdote, and colloquialism. I found the text a page turner, which is unusual in a work of this sort. The students will be drawn on by the text, rather than be bogged down in it."
—Colin Beer, D.Phil., Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
"I like the balance between the introductory material on the historical development of evolution, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and human evolution on the one hand, and the more detailed focus on emotions, cooperation, development, and cognition on the other hand."
—Brian Richmond, PhD, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University
About the Author
Matthew J. Rossano received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He is presently Professor of Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana where he has taught courses in Evolutionary Psychology and in Cognitive Psychology for the past 10 years.
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This review is from: Evolutionary Psychology: The Science of Human Behavior and Evolution (Hardcover)
Evolutionary Psychology is based on the premise that human behavior is the product of evolutionary powers. The premise is unproved. Human behavior is caused by human intelligence and free will, even though human behavior includes somatic and psychosomatic influences and effects. A far more comprehensive exploration of the very items that Dr. Rossano studies in this boook is a book that appeared in 1941 entitled: "Thomistic Psychology" by Robert Brennan, as well as the work of Alfred Adler, the founder of Individal Psychology. To link human behavior to purely biological causes, evolutionary or otherwise is good Ethology, but it is not Anthropology, which is the proper name for the science of human beings. This study is interesting but not complete in its study of those poweers that are specific to human beings: the human intellect and will. Evcolutionary psychology seems to reduce these powers to outgrowths or products of human or evolutionary biology. FOr those interesting I would recommend a more complete study of thess specifically human powers in the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas: Part I, Questions 75-93. Father Clifford Stevens Boys Town, Nebraska
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- Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behaviour: An Anthropological Perspective by Napoleon A. Chagnon in Back Matter
- Plato's Republic (complete) by Plato on page 23
- The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod on page 207
- Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology by Henry Plotkin in Back Matter
- Through the Looking Glass: Complete and Unabridged (Puffin Classics) by Lewis Carroll on page 221
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