Introducing Evolutionary Psychology

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
What is Evolutionary Psychology?......Page 4
Cognitive Psychology......Page 5
Actions Are Caused by Mental Processes......Page 6
Behavlourist Psychology......Page 7
The Mind is a Computer......Page 9
Metaphors of the Mind......Page 11
A Testable Model......Page 12
Evolutionary Biology......Page 13
Heredity and Mutation......Page 16
Genes......Page 17
Heredity......Page 18
Mutation......Page 19
Adaptation and Natural Selection......Page 21
Useful Design......Page 23
The Argument from Design......Page 24
Not by Coincidence.........Page 25
Natura non tacit saltum......Page 26
Improvement by Accident......Page 27
The Evolution of the Eye......Page 28
The Blind Watchmaker......Page 31
Fitting the Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle Together......Page 32
Learning a Language......Page 34
Language Acquisition......Page 35
Vision......Page 36
Modularity......Page 37
Massive Modularity......Page 39
No Central Processes......Page 41
Modules and Adaptations......Page 42
Evolving Modules......Page 44
Shared and Unique Modules......Page 45
Out of Africa......Page 47
The Social Environment......Page 48
Adaptive Problems......Page 49
Predator-Avoidance Modules......Page 51
Detecting Predators......Page 53
False Alarms......Page 55
Two Neural Pathways......Page 56
Food Preference Modules......Page 58
Fat and Sugar......Page 59
Environmental Mismatch......Page 60
Disgust......Page 61
Alliance-Formation Modules......Page 62
Living in Groups......Page 63
Increasing the Group......Page 65
Reciprocal Altruism......Page 66
The Free-Rider Problem......Page 67
The Evolution of Cooperation......Page 68
Tit-for-Tat......Page 69
Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange......Page 71
Modules for Helping Children and Other Relatives......Page 73
Kin Selection......Page 75
The Evolution of Nepotism......Page 78
Allocating Resources to Offspring......Page 82
The Resource-Allocation Module......Page 83
How Much For Me?......Page 85
Weaning......Page 86
The Benefit of Weaning......Page 87
Mind-reading Modules......Page 88
Group Size and Social Intelligence......Page 89
Enter Machiavelli......Page 91
Theory of Mind......Page 92
Folk Psychology......Page 93
Theory of Mind and Autism......Page 95
Lying and Tactical Deception......Page 96
Language Modules......Page 97
The Language Acquisition Device......Page 98
The Evolution of Language......Page 99
Reciprocal Altruism Again......Page 101
Gossip......Page 103
Indirect Reciprocity......Page 104
The Importance of Reputation......Page 105
Mate-Selection Modules......Page 106
The Mating Game......Page 107
The Genes are in the Selection......Page 108
The Importance of Looking Good......Page 109
Body Symmetry......Page 110
What\'s the Evidence for Symmetry?......Page 111
The Biology of Beauty......Page 112
The Fertility Factor......Page 113
Selecting a Mate for Parental Care......Page 114
Human Pair Bonds......Page 115
Parental Care and Human Brain Size......Page 116
Will You Make a Good Parent?......Page 117
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences......Page 119
Dads and Cads......Page 121
Battle of the Sexes or Evolutionary Arms Race?......Page 123
The Myth of the Monogamous Female......Page 124
Women\'s Extra-Pair Mating......Page 125
What\'s the Best Strategy?......Page 127
Men with Resources......Page 128
Testing Mate Preferences......Page 129
Attractiveness and Age......Page 130
Age and Reproduction......Page 131
Fidelity: Sexual and Emotional......Page 132
Male and Female Jealousy......Page 133
Mapping the Mind......Page 134
Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology......Page 135
Pan-adaptation Ism......Page 136
Side-effects and By-products......Page 137
Not Everything is a Module......Page 138
Hypotheses and Confirmations......Page 139
Is Logic a By-product?......Page 144
The Wason-selection Task......Page 145
Cheater-Detection......Page 147
Two Features of Mental Modules......Page 149
Modularity Again......Page 150
Reductionism......Page 152
The Simplest Accurate Theory......Page 153
Genetic Determinism......Page 155
Is Too Much Importance Attached to Genes?......Page 156
Nature vs. Nurture......Page 157
Behavioural Genetics......Page 158
Human Variation and Human Nature......Page 159
Are Human Behaviours Inevitable and Unchangeable?......Page 161
Does Evolutionary Psychology Justify the Status Quo?......Page 163
The Naturalistic Fallacy......Page 164
Mistaken Criticisms and Misunderstandings......Page 165
The Legacy of History......Page 166
A Darwinian Left?......Page 168
The Darwinian Revolution......Page 169
The Future of Psychology......Page 170
Further Reading......Page 171
Evolutionary Psychology on the Internet......Page 173
Acknowledgements......Page 174
Index......Page 175
Back Cover\r......Page 178