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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... explain the usefulness of a biological mechanism but to explain improbable usefulness (i.e., too precisely functional to have arisen by chance alone) (Pinker, 1997). Hypotheses about adaptations are, in essence, probability statements ...
... explained by the new synthesis. These assertions strongly contradicted the dominant theories in the social sciences ... explain human nature, he had little empirical evidence on humans to support his views. The bulk of the scientific ...
... explain why instincts in humans are few in number and highly general: the behaviorist theory of learning. The. Rise ... explained by the “contingencies of reinforcement.” In sharp contrast to instinctivists like William James ...
... explain how changes in life forms could occur. The theory of natural selection was Darwin's first contribution to evolutionary biology. It has three essential ingredients: variation, inheritance, and differential reproduction. Natural ...
... explain human behavior, may be traced to several core misunderstandings. Contrary to these misunderstandings, however, evolutionary theory does not imply that human behavior is genetically determined, nor that human behavior is ...
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