Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the MindThis book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology: The Ne w Science of the Mind, 5/e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship; and then progressing to challenges of group living, including cooperation, aggression, sexual conflict, and status, prestige, and social hierarchies. Students gain a deep understanding of applying evolutionary psychology to their own lives and all the people they interact with. |
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My interest in evolution began in an undergraduate geology class in the mid-1970s, when I first realized that there were theories designed specifically to explain the origins of things. My first evolutionary groping was a term paper for ...
My interest in evolution began in an undergraduate geology class in the mid-1970s, when I first realized that there were theories designed specifically to explain the origins of things. My first evolutionary groping was a term paper for ...
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Explain why radical behaviorism went into scientific decline. In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based on a newfoundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and ...
Explain why radical behaviorism went into scientific decline. In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based on a newfoundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and ...
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Missing from the evolutionists' accounts before Darwin, however, was a theory to explain how change might take place over time and how such seemingly purposeful structures such as the giraffe's long neck and the porcupine's sharp quills ...
Missing from the evolutionists' accounts before Darwin, however, was a theory to explain how change might take place over time and how such seemingly purposeful structures such as the giraffe's long neck and the porcupine's sharp quills ...
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... but rejected all of them because they failed to explain a critical fact: the existence of adaptations. ... and until these could be explained it seemed to me almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species ...
... but rejected all of them because they failed to explain a critical fact: the existence of adaptations. ... and until these could be explained it seemed to me almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species ...
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Darwin got sick at the sight of a peacock because, initially, the brilliant plumage seemed to have no obvious survival value and hence could not be explained by his original theory of natural selection. He eventually developed the ...
Darwin got sick at the sight of a peacock because, initially, the brilliant plumage seemed to have no obvious survival value and hence could not be explained by his original theory of natural selection. He eventually developed the ...
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Problems of Survival | 67 |
Challenges of Sex and Mating | 101 |
Challenges of Parenting and Kinship | 193 |
Problems of Group Living | 255 |
An Integrated Psychological Science | 377 |
Bibliography | 421 |
Credits | 463 |
Index | 468 |
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