Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology -

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Résumé :
This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach by scientists and philosophers that reveals the stamp of evolution on everyday life: how kinship unravels nurture, how family life affects the personalities we acquire, how our minds develop to negotiate social hierarchies, whether we decide to eat or not, what qualities we prefer in our sexual and marriage patterns, how we name and raise our children, how our thoughts and emotions are framed to make adaptive decisions, and methods for identifying evolved adaptations of the human life-cycle. It serves as an advanced text for students and scholars that critiques the dominating work of Buss, Cosmides and Tooby, Dennett, and Pinker. Taking the field beyond the narrow and contentious innatist-adaptionist view of the mind, it supplies a much sought-after interactional, `biopsycho-sociocultural' paradigm using a variety of evidence to converge on carefully reasoned conclusions.

Sommaire:
I. Naturally Selected Development of Behavior, Personality, and Cognition.- 1. Kinship: The Tie that Binds (Disciplines).- 2. Birth Order, Sibling Competition, and Human Behavior.- 3. The Impact of the Social Environment on the Evolution of Mind.- II. Sexually Selected Decision Making in Mating and Parenting.- 4. Sexual Selection, Good Genes, and Human Mating.- 5. Framing Our Thoughts: Ecological Rationality as Evolutionary Psychology's Answer to the Frame Problem.- 6. Food and Fitness: Are Eating Disorders About Self-Esteem, Mating Strategies or Both?.- 7. Paternal Investment or Maternal Investment? A Critique of the Parental Investment Hypothesis in an American Polygamous Community.- III. Adaptationist Research Strategies and Evolutionary History.- 8. From Adaptive Heuristic to Phylogenese Perspective: Some Lessons from the Evolutionary Psychology of Emotion.- 9. Evolution Without History: Critical Reflections on Evolutionary Psychology.- 10. Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology: Check Your Lens.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.