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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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.