Evolutionary Psychology : a Clinical Introduction

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Selection and Adaptation; The concept of evolution; Natural selection; Survival of the fittest; Three assumptions about adaptations; The EEA; Designer Darwinism; Design flaws in evolution; The Swiss army knife model of the mind; The triune brain; The benefits of human brain evolution; The costs of human brain evolution; The evolutionary psychology of evolutionary psychology; Suggestions for further reading; 2 Genetics and Epigenetics; Inheritance of acquired characteristics. Blending inheritance and mutationMendel; The discovery of DNA; The genetic code; Development and preformation; Epigenesis; The role of the single gene; Genetic and environmental determinism; The problem with programming behaviour; Epigenetic agents; Suggestions for further reading; 3 The Evolution and Psychology of Co-operation; Super-organisms and group selection; Individualism in groups; The problem of altruism; Hamilton's inequality; Kin altruism; Inclusive fitness; Prisoner's dilemma; Iterated prisoner's dilemma; Familiarity and reputation; The evolved psychology of reciprocity. Cognitive adaptations for social exchangeSuggestions for further reading; 4 Mind, Emotion and Consciousness; Anti-mentalism; Autism and theory of mind; Darwin's three principles of the expression of the emotions; Evolutionary psychology and The Expression of the Emotions; The pleasure principle; Freud and Darwin; Trivers's evolutionary psychodynamics of consciousness; Divided consciousness; Mental topography and brain lateralization; Suggestions for further reading; 5 Sex, Mating and Parental Investment; Sex and parental investment; Variance of reproductive success; Mating systems. Divorce and remarriageHuman sexual adaptations; Mating preferences; Sex, scent and the selfish gene; Sex ratios; Sex discrimination, abortion and infanticide in humans; Suggestions for further reading; 6 Growth, Development and Conflict; Parent-offspring conflict; Genomic imprinting; Conflict in pregnancy; Imprinted genes and brain development; Postnatal depression; Weaning conflicts; Psychological conflict between parent and child; Genetic conflict and Freudian psychodynamics; The evolution of ambivalence; Suggestions for further reading; 7 Nature, Nurture, Language and Culture. Evolutionary psychology and the SSSMMemes; Conditioning; The nurture assumption; Language; Turner's syndrome; The nature of nurture; Suggestions for further reading; Glossary of Technical Terms; Notes; References; Index