Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (4th Edition) 4th Edition

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David Buss, one of the foremost researchers in the field, has thoroughly revised his already successful text with nearly 400 new references to provide an even more comprehensive overview of this dynamic field. Using cutting-edge research and an engaging writing style, the Fourth Edition of Evolutionary Psychology ensures that your students will master the material presented.

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Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 4 edition (February 28, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 020501562X
ISBN-13: 978-0205015627
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Review for the second edition (2003).

ByMannyon May 22, 2012

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The text I have is the second edition from 2003. Given that the field is relatively new, I suspect the newest edition has expanded a lot on the earlier ones. I give the book four stars because it is a good textbook, but Buss seems to be stretching things out to get to 30 pages in several of the chapters, even going so far as to say the same thing and cite the same studies in different chapters. It was a very easy to read text and was actually very similar to my "Animal Behavior" text by Alcock, and in fact, I would say that is a better text than this one for understanding evolutionary psychology. Again, I suspect later editions of "Evolutionary Psychology" have more human specific papers to cite than the 2003 edition (which relied heavily on animal studies), but I don't know.

Overall a decent text and highly insightful for anyone new to the field.

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Very valuable for a strong foundation

ByBook Fiendon May 22, 2012

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If you are new to EvPsy, then this book is quite useful and informative. However, if you seek philosophical debates and analyses in this controversial field, you will be disappointed. I liked the book a lot because while I have read a lot on Darwinian evolution, evolutionary psychology is a a new subject for me.

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A thorough, but uncritical, overview

Bywhiteelephanton May 18, 2011

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If one reads Buss' text in a certain manner, there is a lot to say about it. It's organized by evolutionary challenge (survival, mating, parenting, group living), exploring how adaptations to each of these challenges might explain human behavior. The general approach is a survey of the literature. Thus on survival, the reader is introduced to hypotheses about the adaptive value of our taste for meat, sweetness, bitterness, spice, alcohol, how these tastes change during pregnancy, and how our attempts to gather food (e.g. hunting) shaped our species (e.g. male-female spatio-temporal differences and group dynamics). Common human phobias (e.g. spiders, heights) are explained in terms of adaptive fitness. While much of this may seem obvious, it is difficult to fault a textbook for explaining the basics of its field. Buss then introduces the evolutionary theory of senescence to answer the question 'why do people die?', and then most speculatively introduces hypotheses about the adaptive value of suicide. Again, if read in a certain way, as an overview of the literature, this book has a value. But don't expect much critical thinking from Buss. He seems predisposed to think that all human behavior is adaptive. While one can certainly imagine how suicide may help one's genetic fitness in certain instances, there is a big leap from this observation to suggesting a heritable mechanism upon which one can decide to advantageously end one's life. Given the high rate of physically healthy teen suicide, an adaptive hypothesis to explain this behavior seems farfetched.

On sex and mating, Buss reviews the psychological literature of mate preference, capably arguing that gender differences are due to evolutionary asymmetry, as opposed to competing hypotheses (e.g. structural societal differences drive women's mate preference). The chapters on kinship are dominated by further explorations of sexual asymmetry as well as the influential theories of Hamilton and Trivers. Moving on to social matters, Buss discuses reciprocal altruism, aggression, warfare, sexual aggression, and status. Again, it is a solid overview, but where it loses value is in its lack of critical assessment of the theories proposed. Evolutionary psychology has been wrongly attacked by many as a collection of unscientific, post hoc, rationalizations. It has also been criticized (e.g. by Gould) as attempting to explain too much of human behavior as adaptive. As such, a text on the matter should do more to contest these notions. Instead, Buss feeds right into them, with uncritical examinations of the evidence in favor of his favored hypotheses (contrasting with his criticism of non-evolutionary theories). In general, this book fails to adequately examine non-evolutionary theories, is uncritical of questionable methodologies (e.g. self reports), and is far too ready to accept dubious interpretations of correlations. But again, if you can keep all this in mind, and read with a critical eye, this book is a nice overview of the field.

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Required for class

ByAmazon Customeron February 28, 2016

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I bought this book only because it is required for class but it is actually a good book. There should be a section for key terms though - to keep the reader interested and help the reader understand key concepts better. At the very least bold key words. Explains concepts pretty well though.

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Such a difficult book to read

ByBrittany-Marie Aaronson February 19, 2014

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I really love this topic and the classes really intrigue me, but this book is really difficult to read. If you're an avid reader and textbook junkie, then this doesn't apply to you. However, if you're just a college student taking a couple classes and trying to get by, I wish you luck on this one.

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Couldn't put it down

ByChason May 30, 2015

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I got this for a class and procrastinated reading the first 4 chapters, so the night before the test I picked it up to "skim" and ended up reading every word because I found it fascinating. I will be getting the next edition for my personal library. I did however have issue with the sections discussing male/female relationships; the book describes hypotheses for behaviors such as domestic violence but does not take the really take the time to say that an evolutionary basis for abuse is still no excuse abuse. This may be intional, the author does a good job of remaining neutral and scientific, but it would not have lost credibility with a simple ethical postulation.

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Fascinating read.

Byamanda_rush1on April 26, 2016

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Very fascinating. Not a difficult text to understand. (I'm a 25 year old college student.)
I picked up this book cause it was on Tai Lopez's book list. Glad I did!

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Really interesting perspective

ByRoberton April 18, 2014

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I love how this book lays out the information. It is a really interesting perspective. This field in psychology is rising and it is great to learn about this field.

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