The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology gathers work from across a young discipline and treats the mind as a set of evolved solutions to problems that recurred over ancestral human history. Its guiding questions are why the mind is designed as it is, and how input from the environment interacts with that design to produce behaviour. An opening section sets out conceptual foundations, life history theory, domain specificity, the methods the evolutionary sciences use, and the controversies the field has attracted. Later sections organise the material around survival, mating, parenting and kinship, and group living, taking in locating places, adaptations to predators and to dangers from other people, mating strategies, physical attractiveness, cooperation and conflict among kin, social exchange, aggression, status hierarchies, the evolution of language, cognitive bias, and morality. Further sections describe interfaces with the established branches of psychology, including cognitive, social, developmental and personality psychology, then reach outwards to mental health, literature and the law. The volume presents itself as a reference work intended to set a standard for the field, rather than as a single sustained thesis, with a foreword by Steven Pinker and an afterword by Richard Dawkins.

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