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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... important new developments in the behavioral sciences over the past 20 years” (Boyer & Heckhausen, 2000, p. 917). This chapter focuses on the logic and methods of the science of evolutionary psychology, a scientific synthesis of modern ...
... existing scientific puzzles. Most important, however, seeding theory simply pushes the causal explanation for life forms back in time. If the earth was really seeded by extraterrestrial beings, what causal processes led to the origins of.
... important exceptions to this, such as mechanisms that exist in only one sex or in a specific subset of the population (Buss & Hawley, 2011), which will be covered later; but for now, it is important to stress that most adaptations are ...
... important domains of inquiry such as investing in kin or children. There is a second strategy for generating evolutionary psychological hypotheses (see Table 2.2). Instead of starting with a theory, we can start with an observation ...
... important point to keep in mind is that a mechanism that led to a successful solution in the evolutionary past may or may not lead to a successful solution now. Our strong taste preferences for fat and sugar, for example, were clearly ...
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Problems of Survival | |
Challenges of Sex and Mating | |
Challenges of Parenting and Kinship | |
Problems of Group Living | |
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