Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
A Graphic Guide
Published on 18. June 2015
176 pages
978-1-84831-977-6 (ISBN)
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How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative? Can the differences between male and female psychology be explained in evolutionary terms? These questions are at the centre of a rapidly growing research programme called evolutionary psychology.
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Dylan Evans in a Lecturer in Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Oscar Zarate is a much-loved graphic artist who has illustrated numerous bestselling Introducing titles.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- What is Evolutionary Psychology?
- Cognitive Psychology
- Actions Are Caused by Mental Processes
- Behaviourist Psychology
- The Mind is a Computer
- Metaphors of the Mind
- A Testable Model
- Evolutionary Biology
- Heredity and Mutation
- Genes
- Heredity
- Mutation
- Adaptation and Natural Selection
- Useful Design
- The Argument from Design
- Not by Coincidence...
- Natura non facit saltum
- Improvement by Accident
- The Evolution of the Eye
- The Blind Watchmaker
- Fitting the Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle Together
- General-Purpose Problem-Solver?
- Learning a Language
- Language Acquisition
- Vision
- Modularity
- Massive Modularity
- No Central Processes
- Modules and Adaptations
- Adaptations and Environments
- Evolving Modules
- Shared and Unique Modules
- Out of Africa
- The Social Environment
- Adaptive Problems
- Predator-Avoidance Modules
- Detecting Predators
- False Alarms
- Two Neural Pathways
- Food Preference Modules
- Fat and Sugar
- Environmental Mismatch
- Disgust
- Alliance-Formation Modules
- Living in Groups
- Alliances and Coalitions
- Increasing the Group
- Reciprocal Altruism
- The Free-Rider Problem
- The Evolution of Cooperation
- Tit-for-Tat
- Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange
- Modules for Helping Children and Other Relatives
- Kin Selection
- How Related Are You?
- Hamilton's Rule
- The Evolution of Nepotism
- The Truth About Cinderella
- Allocating Resources to Offspring
- The Resource-Allocation Module
- Parent-Offspring Conflict
- How Much For Me?
- Weaning
- The Benefit of Weaning
- Mind-reading Modules
- Group Size and Social Intelligence
- Enter Machiavelli
- Theory of Mind
- Folk Psycology
- The Sally-Ann Test
- Theory of Mind and Autism
- Lying and Tactical Deception
- Language Modules
- The Language Acquisition Device
- The Evolution of Language
- Reciprocal Altruism Again
- Gossip
- Indirect Reciprocity
- The Importance of Reputation
- Mate-Selection Modules
- The Mating Game
- The Genes are in the Selection
- The Importance of Looking Good
- Body Symmetry
- What's the Evidence for Symmetry?
- The Biology of Beauty
- The Fertility Factor
- Selecting a Mate for Parental Care
- Human Pair Bonds
- Parental Care and Human Brain Size
- Will You Make a Good Parent?
- Sex Differences in Mate Preferences
- Dads and Cads
- Battle of the Sexes - or Evolutionary Arms Race?
- The Myth of the Monogamous Female
- Women's Extra-Pair Mating
- What's the Best Strategy?
- Men with Resources
- Testing Mate Preferences
- Attractiveness and Age
- Age and Reproduction
- Fidelity: Sexual and Emotional
- Male and Female Jealousy
- Mapping the Mind
- Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology
- Pan-adaptationism
- Side-effects and By-products
- Not Everything is a Module
- Hypotheses and Confirmations
- Just-So Stories?
- Is Logic a By-product?
- The Wason-selection Task
- Cheater-Detection
- Two Features of Mental Modules
- Modularity Again
- Reductionism
- The Simplest Accurate Theory
- Genetic Determinism
- Is Too Much Importance Attached to Genes?
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Behavioural Genetics
- Human Variation and Human Nature
- Are Human Behaviours Inevitable and Unchangeable?
- Does Evolutionary Psychology Justify the Status Quo?
- The Naturalistic Fallacy
- Mistaken Criticisms and Misunderstandings
- The Legacy of History
- The Future of Evolutionary Psychology
- The Darwinian Revolution
- The Future of Psychology
- Further Reading
- The Author
- Acknowledgements
- Index
