Essential Evolutionary Psychology

CONTENTS......Page 8
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 10
LIST OF TABLES......Page 11
LIST OF BOXES......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 20
PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 22
1 - DARWIN’S ARGUMENT AND THREE PROBLEMS: HERITABILITY, SEXUAL SELECTION AND ALTRUISM......Page 24
2 - EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHESTO THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOUR......Page 39
3 - THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMANS......Page 60
4 - BRAINS, MINDS AND CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 80
5 - COOPERATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE......Page 104
6 - FAMILIES AND PARENTING......Page 119
7 - MATE SELECTION......Page 137
8 - COMPETITION, AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE......Page 152
9 - EVOLUTION AND LANGUAGE......Page 168
10 - EVOLUTION AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY......Page 185
11 - EVOLUTION AND CULTURE......Page 202
12 - SOME PROBLEMS WITH EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES......Page 218
GLOSSARY......Page 234
REFERENCES......Page 254
INDEX......Page 275