Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the MindWhere did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary psychology is a revolutionary new science, a true synthesis of modern principles of psychology and evolutionary biology. Since the publication of the award-winning first edition of Evolutionary Psychology, there has been an explosion of research within the field. In this book, David M. Buss examines human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, providing students with the conceptual tools needed to study evolutionary psychology and apply them to empirical research on the human mind. This edition contains expanded coverage of cultural evolution, with a new section on culture–gene co-evolution, additional studies discussing interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, expanded discussions of evolutionary hypotheses that have been empirically disconfirmed, and much more! Evolutionary Psychology features a wealth of student-friendly pedagogy including critical-thinking questions and case study boxes designed to show how to apply evolutionary psychology to real-life situations. It is an invaluable resource for undergraduates studying psychology, biology and anthropology. See "Support Material" below for new online resources, including PowerPoint slides and Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank. |
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Some changes, for example, can occur because of a process called genetic drift, which is defined as random changes in ... Thus, founder effects can produce evolutionary change—in this example, an increase in genes coding for red hair.
The first among these is the physical basis of inheritance—the gene. The. Modern. Synthesis: Genes. and. Particulate. Inheritance. When Darwin published On the Origin of Species, he did not know the nature of the mechanism by which ...
Furthermore, parents must be born with the genes they pass on; genes cannot be acquired by experience. ... A gene is defined as the smallest discrete unit that is inherited by offspring intact, without being broken up or blended—this ...
Hamilton reasoned that classical fitness—the measure of an individual's direct reproductive success in passing on genes through the production of offspring—was too narrow to describe the process of evolution by selection.
Thus, inclusive fitness can be viewed as the sum of an individual's own reproductive success (classical fitness) plus the effects the individual's actions have on the reproductive success of his or her genetic relatives.
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Problems of Survival | |
Challenges of Sex and Mating | |
Challenges of Parenting and Kinship | |
Problems of Group Living | |
Bibliography | |
Credits | |
Index | |