Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the MindRoutledge, 22 февр. 2019 г. - Всего страниц: 518 Where 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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... solve a particular adaptive problem well and effectively (efficiency)? Does the mechanism solve the adaptive problem without extorting huge costs from the organism (economy)? In other words, adaptation is invoked not merely to explain ...
... solving other adaptive problems, such as gathering fruits, plants, and other food resources necessary for survival. In short, the existing fears of snakes and spiders that characterize humans are not optimally designed—after all ...
... solve specific problems. Contrary to the common view, James believed that humans had many more instincts than other animals: “no other mammal, not even the monkey, shows so large a list” (James, 1890/1962, p. 406). And it was in part ...
... solve a number of informationprocessing problems. Successfully accomplishing the tasks of seeing, hearing, walking bipedally, and categorizing, for example, requires a tremendous amount of informationprocessing machinery. Although ...
... solve any particular problem, it must be programmed in very specific ways. Programming a computer to play chess, for example, takes millions of lines of “if... then” statements of programming, and these differ from the computer programs ...
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Challenges of Sex and Mating | |
Challenges of Parenting and Kinship | |
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