The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. With contributions from over fifty experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. In addition to well studied areas of investigation, such as mate choice and reproduction, the volume also includes chapters on the philosophical underpinnings of evolutionary psychology, comparative perspectives from other species, recent neurobiological findings, and gets to grips with the issue of cultural evolution in relation to human psychology. All the chapters combine a solid review of the relevant literature with well reasoned arguments and robust discussions of the major findings, as well as original insights and suggestions for future work. All the chapters are written by active researchers in the field of evolutionary psychology and so, as might be xpected, a wide diversity of opinions is presented. The critical, wide-ranging and diverse discussions are thought-provoking and, taken together, the handbook as a whole provides a well balanced assessment of current research, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In addition, the editors provide an initial chapter and section introductions that place the contributions in context and help guide the reader by highlighting the major themes raised by the contributors. While each chapter thus stands on its own, and the book can be used as a work of reference, the integration of themes across chapters and sections means it can also be read in its entirety as a complement to textbooks and other publications in the field. The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is the definitive text on this burgeoning field.
Author(s): Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett (Editors)
Series: Oxford Library of Psychology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 698
Front cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents ......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
SECTION I Philosophical issues......Page 15
CHAPTER 1 Evolutionary psychology in the round - Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett ......Page 17
CHAPTER 2 The power of culture - Henry Plotkin......Page 24
CHAPTER 3 Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective - Matteo Mameli......Page 33
CHAPTER 4 Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology - Kevin N. Laland......Page 47
CHAPTER 5 Group-level evolutionary processes - David Sloan Wilson......Page 60
SECTION II The comparative approach......Page 67
CHAPTER 6 Homologizing the mind - Drew Rendall, Hugh Notman and John R. Vokey......Page 69
CHAPTER 7 Social knowledge in primates - Josep Call......Page 81
CHAPTER 8 Social cognition in non-primates - Redouan Bshary, Lucie H. Salwiczek and Wolfgang Wielder......Page 92
CHAPTER 9 Culture in primates and other animals - Carel P. van Schaik......Page 111
CHAPTER 10 - Empathy, sympathy, and prosocial preferences in primates - Joan B. Silk......Page 122
SECTION III Evolutionary neurobiology and cognition......Page 134
CHAPTER 11 Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system - Robert A. Barton......Page 136
CHAPTER 12 The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain - Jaak Panksepp......Page 152
CHAPTER 13 Neural pathways of social cognition - Tjeerd Jellema and David I. Perrett......Page 170
CHAPTER 14 Mirror neurons and social cognition - Giacomo Rizzolatti and Leonardo Fogassi......Page 185
CHAPTER 15 Mechanisms of ecological rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart - Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer......Page 202
SECTION IV Development......Page 216
CHAPTER 16 The evolution of empathizing and systemizing: assortative mating of two strong systemizers and the cause of autism - Simon Baron-Cohen......Page 218
CHAPTER 17 The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation - Emily Wyman and Michael Tomasello......Page 232
CHAPTER 18 Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies - Jay Belsky......Page 242
CHAPTER 19 Parental impacts on development: How proximate factors mediate adaptive plans - Tamas Bereczkei......Page 259
CHAPTER 20 Evolution of stress response to social threat - Mark V. Flinn......Page 276
CHAPTER 21 Birth order and sibling competition - Frank J. Sulloway......Page 299
SECTION V Mating, reproduction and life history......Page 314
CHAPTER 22 Body odours and body odour preferences in humans - Claus Wedekind......Page 316
CHAPTER 23 Reproductive strategies and tactics - Steven W. Gangestad......Page 322
CHAPTER 24 Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection - Gillian Rhodes and Leigh W. Simmons......Page 334
CHAPTER 25 Sex differences in aggression - Anne Campbell......Page 366
CHAPTER 26 The evolutionary ecology of human family size - Ruth Mace......Page 384
CHAPTER 27 Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans - Virpi Lummaa......Page 398
CHAPTER 28 Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies - Eckart Voland......Page 415
CHAPTER 29 Risk and decision-making - Bruce Winterhalder......Page 433
SECTION VI The self and the social world......Page 446
CHAPTER 30 Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems - Bobbi S. Low......Page 448
CHAPTER 31 Kinship and descent - Lee Cronk and Drew Gerkey......Page 462
CHAPTER 32 Individual differences - Daniel Nettle......Page 478
CHAPTER 33 Human evolution and social cognition - Mark Schaller, Justin H. Park and Douglas T. Kenrick......Page 490
CHAPTER 34 Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective - John J. Skowronski and Constantine Sedikides......Page 504
CHAPTER 35 Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies - John H. Crook......Page 517
CHAPTER 36 Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups - Mark Van Vugt, Gilbert Roberts and Charlie Hardy......Page 528
CHAPTER 37 Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruism - Frank Salter......Page 538
SECTION VII Cultural evolution......Page 549
CHAPTER 38 Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution - Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath......Page 551
CHAPTER 39 Modelling cultural evolution - Richard McElreath and Joseph Henrich......Page 567
CHAPTER 40 Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution - Stephen Shennan......Page 582
CHAPTER 41 Memes - Robert Aunger......Page 593
CHAPTER 42 Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans - Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr......Page 599
CHAPTER 43 The evolution of religion - Joseph A. Bulbulia......Page 614
CHAPTER 44 Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama - Joseph Carroll......Page 629
CHAPTER 4 Music and cognitive evolution - Ian Cross......Page 641
CHAPTER 46 The evolution of language - Simon Kirby......Page 660
Index......Page 673
Back cover......Page 698
