| Description |
xv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Comprehensive knowledge of human evolutionary history requires both adaptationism and phylogenetics / Randy Thornhill -- Natural psychology : the environment of evolutionary adaptedness and the structure of cognition / Edward H. Hagen and Donald Symons -- Reconstructing the evolution of the mind is depressingly difficult / Paul W. Andrews -- Reconstructing the evolution of the human mind / Eric Alden Smith -- How the evolution of the human mind might be reconstructed / Steven Mithen -- Reproductive success : then and now / Charles B. Crawford -- On the utility, not the necessity, of tracking current fitness / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- Why measuring reproductive success in current populations is valuable : moving forward by going backward / H. Kern Reeve and Paul W. Sherman -- What nonhuman primates can and can't teach us about the evolution of mind / Craig B. Stanford -- Who lived in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness? / Joan B. Silk -- Chimpanzee and human intelligence : life history, diet, and the mind / Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan -- Optimality approaches and evolutionary psychology : a call for synthesis / Hillard S. Kaplan and Steven W. Gangestad -- The games people play / Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban -- Dynamical evolutionary psychology and mathematical modeling : quantifying the implications of qualitative biases / Douglas T. Kenrick and Jill M. Sundie -- Functional specialization and the adaptationist program / Elsa Ermer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- Modules in the flesh / H. Clark Barrett -- The developmental dynamics of adaptation / Hunter Honeycutt and Robert Lickliter -- An alternative evolutionary psychology? / Kim Sterelny -- Development as the target of evolution : a computational approach to developmental systems / H. Clark Barrett -- Evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory / Debra Lieberman -- The importance of developmental biology to evolutionary biology and vice versa / Randy Thornhill -- The role of group selection in human psychological evolution / David Sloan Wilson -- Group selection : a tale of two controversies / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- On detecting the footprints of multilevel selection in humans / Robert Kurzban and C. Athena Aktipis -- The hominid entry into the cognitive niche / H. Clark Barrett, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- Runaway social selection in human evolution / Mark Flinn and Richard Alexander -- Key changes in the evolution of human psychology / Steven Mithen -- Brain evolution and the human adaptive complex : an ecological and social theory / Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael Gurven and Jane B. Lancaster -- Evolution of the social brain / Robin Dunbar -- Brain evolution / Geoffrey Miller -- E pluribus unum : too many unique human capacities and too many theories / Barbara L. Finlay -- The motivation to control and the evolution of general intelligence / David C. Geary -- The g-culture coevolution / Satoshi Kanazawa -- General intellectual ability / Steven Mithen -- Cultural adaptation and maladaptation : of kayaks and commissars / Robert Boyd -- The envelope of human cultures and the promise of integrated behavioral sciences / Pascal Boyer -- The linked red queens of human cognition, coalitions, and culture / Mark Flinn and Kathryn Coe -- Evolutionary biology, cognitive adaptations, and human culture / Kim Hill -- Representational epidemiology : skepticism and gullibility / Robert Kurzban -- Turning garbage into gold : evolutionary universals and cross-cultural differences / Mark Schaller -- The evolution of human mating strategies : consequences for conflict and cooperation / David M. Buss -- Social structural origins of sex differences in human mating / Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly -- The evolution of women's estrus, extended sexuality and concealed ovulation, and their implications for human sexuality research / Randy Thornhill -- Final thoughts / Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson. |
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Human evolution.
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Sociobiology.
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Evolution.
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Hominidae.
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| Added Author |
Gangestad, Steven W.
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Simpson, Jeffry A.
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| ISBN |
1593854080 alkaline paper |
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9781593854089 alkaline paper |
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