Illusory riches : the false promise of evolutionary psychology /
"We know that human nature is the product of evolution. We know very little about the specific evolutionary pathways that led to us being the way we are. In most cases, we will never know. This is because the sources of evidence we normally use to reconstruct evolutionary history are generally...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "We know that human nature is the product of evolution. We know very little about the specific evolutionary pathways that led to us being the way we are. In most cases, we will never know. This is because the sources of evidence we normally use to reconstruct evolutionary history are generally unavailable for studying the evolutionary dynamics that produced our unique behavioral and psychological characteristics. This unfortunate fact becomes readily apparent by looking at how scientists study and achieve knowledge of evolutionary history. Evolutionary Psychology's claims about our evolutionary past generally do not rise to this standard"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197751237 0197751237 9780197751244 0197751245 9780197751220 0197751229 |