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2.0 out of 5 stars
How can a book about evolution avoid sex development?,
This review is from: Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (Hardcover)
Look. I admit I didn't buy or read this book. I'm sure there are some good things in it. But, as a practicing evolutionary psychologist, I understand the rightness of the thesis of Geoffrey Miller's classic, "The Mating Mind". Sex and mating are what shaped the mind. While this is not even debatable, yet the vast number of developmental specialists are irrationally afraid of the study of sexual development to the point of cowardice (yet, it is somewhat explained by the backwards cultural sontext: one can't even mention the words "children" and "sex" in the same sentence, these days, without the word "abuse" being present). From the larger historical context, this is astounding, given the fact that modern psychology came into being with the publication of Freud's first theoretical exercise: "The Theory of Infantile Sexuality". Freud knew children were sexual and, at least, tried to deal with the subject. Nowadays, this subject is embarrassingly "swept under the rug". I can understand a typical developmental textbook doing this, but when I do an Amazon book search and type in "sex", there are zero hits. This is supposed to be a book from the evolutionary standpoint. Given that evolution is all about sex and mating, what could be more important in an evolutionary text on development then the development of the human primate's capacity to mate???
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Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development by Bruce J. Ellis PhD (Hardcover - November 22, 2004)
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