The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology ()

Front cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents ......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
SECTION I Philosophical issues......Page 15
CHAPTER 1 Evolutionary psychology in the round - Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett ......Page 17
CHAPTER 2 The power of culture - Henry Plotkin......Page 24
CHAPTER 3 Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective - Matteo Mameli......Page 33
CHAPTER 4 Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology - Kevin N. Laland......Page 47
CHAPTER 5 Group-level evolutionary processes - David Sloan Wilson......Page 60
SECTION II The comparative approach......Page 67
CHAPTER 6 Homologizing the mind - Drew Rendall, Hugh Notman and John R. Vokey......Page 69
CHAPTER 7 Social knowledge in primates - Josep Call......Page 81
CHAPTER 8 Social cognition in non-primates - Redouan Bshary, Lucie H. Salwiczek and Wolfgang Wielder......Page 92
CHAPTER 9 Culture in primates and other animals - Carel P. van Schaik......Page 111
CHAPTER 10 - Empathy, sympathy, and prosocial preferences in primates - Joan B. Silk......Page 122
SECTION III Evolutionary neurobiology and cognition......Page 134
CHAPTER 11 Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system - Robert A. Barton......Page 136
CHAPTER 12 The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain - Jaak Panksepp......Page 152
CHAPTER 13 Neural pathways of social cognition - Tjeerd Jellema and David I. Perrett......Page 170
CHAPTER 14 Mirror neurons and social cognition - Giacomo Rizzolatti and Leonardo Fogassi......Page 185
CHAPTER 15 Mechanisms of ecological rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart - Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer......Page 202
SECTION IV Development......Page 216
CHAPTER 16 The evolution of empathizing and systemizing: assortative mating of two strong systemizers and the cause of autism - Simon Baron-Cohen......Page 218
CHAPTER 17 The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation - Emily Wyman and Michael Tomasello......Page 232
CHAPTER 18 Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies - Jay Belsky......Page 242
CHAPTER 19 Parental impacts on development: How proximate factors mediate adaptive plans - Tamas Bereczkei......Page 259
CHAPTER 20 Evolution of stress response to social threat - Mark V. Flinn......Page 276
CHAPTER 21 Birth order and sibling competition - Frank J. Sulloway......Page 299
SECTION V Mating, reproduction and life history......Page 314
CHAPTER 22 Body odours and body odour preferences in humans - Claus Wedekind......Page 316
CHAPTER 23 Reproductive strategies and tactics - Steven W. Gangestad......Page 322
CHAPTER 24 Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection - Gillian Rhodes and Leigh W. Simmons......Page 334
CHAPTER 25 Sex differences in aggression - Anne Campbell......Page 366
CHAPTER 26 The evolutionary ecology of human family size - Ruth Mace......Page 384
CHAPTER 27 Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans - Virpi Lummaa......Page 398
CHAPTER 28 Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies - Eckart Voland......Page 415
CHAPTER 29 Risk and decision-making - Bruce Winterhalder......Page 433
SECTION VI The self and the social world......Page 446
CHAPTER 30 Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems - Bobbi S. Low......Page 448
CHAPTER 31 Kinship and descent - Lee Cronk and Drew Gerkey......Page 462
CHAPTER 32 Individual differences - Daniel Nettle......Page 478
CHAPTER 33 Human evolution and social cognition - Mark Schaller, Justin H. Park and Douglas T. Kenrick......Page 490
CHAPTER 34 Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective - John J. Skowronski and Constantine Sedikides......Page 504
CHAPTER 35 Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies - John H. Crook......Page 517
CHAPTER 36 Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups - Mark Van Vugt, Gilbert Roberts and Charlie Hardy......Page 528
CHAPTER 37 Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruism - Frank Salter......Page 538
SECTION VII Cultural evolution......Page 549
CHAPTER 38 Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution - Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath......Page 551
CHAPTER 39 Modelling cultural evolution - Richard McElreath and Joseph Henrich......Page 567
CHAPTER 40 Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution - Stephen Shennan......Page 582
CHAPTER 41 Memes - Robert Aunger......Page 593
CHAPTER 42 Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans - Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr......Page 599
CHAPTER 43 The evolution of religion - Joseph A. Bulbulia......Page 614
CHAPTER 44 Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama - Joseph Carroll......Page 629
CHAPTER 4 Music and cognitive evolution - Ian Cross......Page 641
CHAPTER 46 The evolution of language - Simon Kirby......Page 660
Index......Page 673
Back cover......Page 698