Evolutionary Psychology : Alternative Approaches /

Evolutionary psychology has been dominated by one particular method for studying the mind and behavior. This is the first book to both question that monopoly and suggest a broad range of particular alternatives. Psychologists, philosophers, biologists, anthropologists, and others offer different met...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scher, Steven J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rauscher, Frederick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Alternative approaches to evolutionary psychology: introduction
  • Nature read in truth or flaw: locating alternatives in evolutionary psychology
  • The evaluation of competing approaches within human evolutionary psychology
  • Evolution, morality, and human potential
  • Repeated assembly: prospects for saying what we mean
  • Human triangles: genes, sex and economics in human evolution
  • The optimal number of fathers: evolution, demography, and history in the shaping of female mate preferences
  • Dancing in the dark: evolutionary psychology and the argument from design
  • Adaptationism and psychological explanation
  • Toward a developmental evolutionary psychology: genes, development, and the evolution of cognitive architecture
  • Modules, brain parts, and evolutionary psychology
  • Evolutionary psychology and the information-processing model of cognition
  • Evolutionary psychology and artificial life.