Originally published in 1998, the aim of the Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology was to compile a volume that would facilitate the development of the evolutionary approach to human behavior by communicating some of the major ideas, issues, and applications of the Theory of Evolution at the time.
Part I introduces readers to those aspects of evolutionary theorizing that had been particularly important during the previous decade, and were believed would continue to be important for some time. Part II deals with some of the central issues in the application of the Theory of Evolution to the study of human behavior. The chapters in Part III illustrate how a variety of researchers and scholars were using evolutionary thinking to explain psychological phenomena.
This book is a re-issue originally published in 1998. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
Preface. About the Contributors. Part 1: Ideas
1. The Theory of
Evolution in the Study of Human Behavior: An Introduction and Overview
Charles Crawford
2. Acting for the Good of Others: Kinship and Reciprocity
with Some New Twists Hudson Kern Reeve
3. How Mate Choice Shaped Human
Nature: A Review of Sexual Selection and Human Evolution Geoffrey F. Miller
4. The Evolution of Human Life Histories Bobbi S. Low
5. Evolutionary
Approaches to Culture Maria Janicki and Dennis L. Krebs Part II: Issues
6.
Can Behavior Genetics Contribute to Evolutionary Behavioral Science? J.
Michael Bailey
7. Evolutionary Psychology and Theories of Cognitive
Architecture Andrew Wells
8. Not Whether to Count Babies, But Which Laura
Betzig
9. Environments and Adaptations: Then and Now Charles Crawford
10.
Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses Harmon R. Holcomb III Part III: Applications
11. The Evolution of Moral Behaviors Dennis L. Krebs
12. Developmental
Psychology and Modern Darwinism Michele K. Surbey
13. The Psychology of Human
Mate Selection: Exploring the Complexity of the Strategic Repertoire David M.
Buss
14. The Evolutionary Social Psychology of Family Violence Martin Daly
and Margo Wilson
15. PsychoDarwinism: The New Synthesis of Darwin and Freud
Christopher R. Badcock
16. Evolutionary Cognitive Psychology: The Missing
Heart of Modern Cognitive Science Douglas T. Kenrick, Edward K. Sadalla and
Richard C. Keefe
17. Evolutionary Psychology and Sexual Agression Neil M.
Malamuth and Mario F. Heilmann
18. Darwinian Aesthetics Randy Thornhill
19.
The Global Environmental Crisis and State Behavior: An Evolutionary
Perspective Yuwa Hedrick-Wong
20. The Evolutionary Psychology of Spatial Sex
Differences Irwin Silverman and Krista Phillips
21. The Creation and
Re-Creation of Language Derek Bickerton. Author Index. Subject Index.
Charles Crawford is an emeritus professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Dennis Krebs
