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  title info:
    title: Evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology
  name:
    name part: Richardson, Robert C.
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2007
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results. Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits--including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and jealousy to language and reason--can be understood as specific adaptations to ancestral Pleistocene conditions. In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology. The claims of evolutionary psychology may pass muster as psychology; but what are their evolutionary credentials? Richardson considers three ways adaptive hypotheses can be evaluated, using examples from the biological literature to illustrate what sorts of evidence and methodology would be necessary to establish specific evolutionary and adaptive explanations of human psychological traits. He shows that existing explanations within evolutionary psychology fall woefully short of accepted biological standards. The theories offered by evolutionary psychologists may identify traits that are, or were, beneficial to humans. But gauged by biological standards, there is inadequate evidence: evolutionary psychologists are largely silent on the evolutionary evidence relevant to assessing their claims, including such matters as variation in ancestral populations, heritability, and the advantage offered to our ancestors. As evolutionary claims th…
  note: Robert C. Richardson.
  note: "A Bradford book."
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary psychology
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY/General
  classification: BF698.95 .R44 2007eb
  classification: 155.7
  identifier: 9780262282376
  identifier: 0262282372
  identifier: 9781435611146
  identifier: 1435611144
  identifier: 9780262514217
  identifier: 0262514214
  identifier: 9780262182607
  identifier: 0262182602
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 071203
    record change date: 20221121162603.0
    record identifier: in00004602071
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng