Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology
Provides a comprehensive overview of developments in this area of research. This volume also includes chapters on the philosophical underpinnings of evolutionary psychology, comparative perspectives from other species, and neurobiological findings and the issue of cultural evolution in relation to human psychology.
Print Book, English, cop. 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, cop. 2007
Manuales
xiii, 706 p
9780198568308, 0198568304
645032485
SECTION I: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES; 1. Evolutionary pyschology in the round; 2. The power of culture; 3. Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective; 4. Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology; 5. Group level evolutionary processes; SECTION II: THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH; 6. Homologizing the mind; 7. Social knowledge in primates; 8. Social cognition in non-primates; 9. Culture in primates and other animals; 10. Empathy, sympathy and prosocial preferences in primates; SECTION III: EVOLUTIONARY NEUROBIOLOGY AND COGNITION; 11. Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system; 12. The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain; 13. Neural pathways of social cognition; 14. Mirror neurons and social cognition; 15. Mechanisms of ecological rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart; SECTION IV: DEVELOPMENT; 16. The evolution of empathizing and systematizing: assortative mating of two strong systematizers and the cause of autism; 17. The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation; 18. Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies; 19. Parental impacts on development: how proximate factors mediate adaptive plans; 20. Evolution of stress response to social threat; 21. Birth order and sibling competition; SECTION V: MATING, REPRODUCTION & LIFE HISTORY; 22. Body odours and odour preferences in humans; 23. Reproductive strategies and tactics; 24. Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection; 25. Sex differences in aggression; 26. Evolutionary ecology of family size; 27. Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans; 28. Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies; 29. Risk and decision-making; SECTION VI: THE SELF AND THE SOCIAL WORLD; 30. Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems; 31. Kinship and descent; 32. Individual differences; 33. Human evolution and social cognition; 34. Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective; 35. Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies; 36. Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups; 37. Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruisms; SECTION VII: CULTURAL EVOLUTION; 38. Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution; 39. Modelling cultural evolution; 40. Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution; 41. Memes; 42. Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans; 43. Evolution of religion; 44. Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama; 45. Music and cognitive evolution; 46. The evolution of language