Evolutionary Psychology: A Clinical IntroductionISBN: 978-0-7456-2205-7
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320 pages
November 2000, Polity
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1 SELECTION
AND ADAPTATION The concept of evolution, Natural selection,
Survival of the fittest, Three assumptions about adaptations, The
EEA, The argument from design, Design flaws in evolution, The Swiss
army knife model of the mind, The triune brain, The costs and
benefits of human brain evolution, The evolutionary psychology of
evolutionary psychology. Chapter 2 GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS:
Inheritance and acquired characteristics, Blending inheritance and
mutation, Mendel, the discovery of DNA, The genetic code,
Development and preformation, Epigenesis, The role of the single
Gene, Genetic and environmental determinism, The problem with
programming behaviour, Epigenetic agents, Chapter 3 THE EVOLUTION
& PSYCHOLOGY OF CO-OPERATION: Super-organisms and group
selection, Individualism in groups, The problem of altruism,
Hamilton's inequality, Kin altruism, Inclusive fitness, Prisoner's
dilemma, Iterated prisoner's dilemma, Familiarity and reputation,
The evolved psychology of reciprocity, Cognitive adaptations for
social exchange. Chapter 4 MIND, EMOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
Anti-mentalism, Autism and theory of mind, Darwin's three
principles of the expression of the emotions, Evolutionary
psychology and The Expression of the Emotions, The pleasure
principle, Freud and Darwin, Triver's evolutionary psychodynamics
of consciousness, Divided consciousness, Mental topography &
brain lateralization, Chapter 5 SEX, MATING AND PARENTAL
INVESTMENT: Sex and parental investment, Variance of reproductive
success, Mating systems, Divorce and remarriage, Human sexual
adaptations, Mating preferences, Sex, scent and the selfish gene,
Sex ratios, Sex discrimination, abortion and infanticide in humans.
Chapter 6 GROWTH, DEVELOPMEMT AND CONFLICT: Parent-offspring
conflict, Genomic imprinting, Conflict in pregnancy, Imprinted
genes and brain development, Postnatal depression, Weaning
conflicts, Psychological conflict between parent and child, Genetic
conflict and Freudian psychodynamics, The evolution of ambivalence.
Chapter 7 NATURE, NURTURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: Evolutionary
psychology and the SSSM, Memes, Conditioning, The nurture
assumption, Language, Turner's syndrome, The nature of nurture.
Glossary of technical terms, References, Index