This book includes a narrative writing style, modeled after how ive taught this class since 1999 and has chapters on the basic ideas that underlie evolutionary psychology, the major behavioral domains that have been illuminated by this field. An evolutionary perspective this article explains why loving couples fair better in the course of human evolution, and why love is epitomised in poetry yet shrouded in mystery. Evolutionary psychology john tooby and leda cosmides the emergence of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology and the paradox of fiction by koppe.
Written for undergraduate psychology students, and assuming little knowledge of evolutionary science, the third edition of this classic textbook provides an essential introduction to evolutionary psychology. Chapter 11 evolutionary psychology and the challenge of. Louise barrett is professor of psychology at the university of lethbridge and john lycett is a lecturer in evolutionary psychology at the university of liverpool. Jan 09, 2014 written for undergraduate psychology students, and assuming little knowledge of evolutionary science, the third edition of this classic textbook provides an essential introduction to evolutionary psychology. T he theory of evolution by natural selection has revolutionary implications for understanding the design of the human mind and brain, as darwin himself was the first to recognize darwin, 1859. Evolutionary perspectives on human development, second edition considers the role of evolutionary theory in the field of developmental psychology to examine key topics of individual human development.
Second, i shall reconstruct a solution to the pof that has been proposed from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, and i shall evaluate this proposal by. Psychologists study processes of sense perception, thinking, learning, cognition, emotions and motivations, personality, abnormal behavior, interactions between individuals, and interactions with the environment. Written specifically for the general reader, and for entrylevel students, it covers all the most important elements of this interdisciplinary subject, from the role of evolution. Evolutionary psychology ep is a nativist approach to cognition that views the human mind as a collection of modules design by natural selection to solve the problems faced by our pleistocene ancestors. This is a concise and studentfriendly survey of the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology ep and the controversies that surround it. Workman and reader is a refreshing book in the growing stack of textbooks in evolutionary psychology. It applies principles of evolutionary biology darwin, 1859, in particular the logic of adaptationism williams, 1966, to derive and test hypotheses about the design and operation of the human mind. One can think of each specialized circuit as a minicomputer that is dedicated to solving one problem cosmides and tooby, 1997, p. This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology.
The evolutionary perspective is based on the foundations of cognitive psychology as well as evolutionary biology. Dear colleague, i write to announce the publication of my newest book, evolutionary psychology 101 part of springers psychology 101 series. Robin dunbar is professor of evolutionary psychology at the university of oxford. Modern humans are all descendants of a long and unbroken line of ancestors who succeeded in the. Evolutionary psychology explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection. Currently professor of evolutionary psychology and head of the social and evolutionary neuroscience research group at the department of experimental psychology, university of oxford. Beyond evolutionary psychology deals with the relation between culture, evolution, psychology and emotion, based both in the underlying biology, determined by our evolutionary heritage, and in the interaction of our brain with the physical, ecological and social environment, based in the key property of brain plasticity. This unique book fills an important gap in the literature, applying evolutionary models to human development by focusing on central development.
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