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Essential Evolutionary Psychology

  • ISBN-13: 9781412935845
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Simon J Hampton
  • Price: AUD $340.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 18/12/2009
  • Format: Hardback (232.00mm X 186.00mm) 280 pages Weight: 660g
  • Categories: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism) [JMAL]
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It offers a sound, brief and student friendly explication of how evolutionary theory has been and is applied in psychology. The book unpicks the very essence of human evolution, and how this knowledge is used to give evolutionary accounts of four of the central pillars of human behaviour - cooperation, attraction, aggression, and family formation. It also covers evolutionary accounts of abnormal behaviour, language and culture.
Darwin's Argument and Three Problems Heritability, Sexual Selection and Altruism What Is Evolutionary Psychology? The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness Brains, Minds and Consciousness Co-Operation and Interdependence Families and Parenting Mate Selection Competition, Aggression and Violence Evolution and Language Evolution and Abnormal Psychology Evolution and Culture The Future of Evolutionary Psychology
`It is refreshing, in the wake of the sometimes uncritical enthusiasm for evolutionary psychology, to read a thoughtful and balanced account of the problems as well as the benefits of an evolutionary perspective on human behaviour' - Professor Anne Campbell, Durham University
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