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Evolutionary psychologyLeda Cosmides and John Tooby coined the term evolutionary psychology (EP) in their 1992 book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture (ISBN 0195101073). They proposed that human cognition and behavior could be better understood by examining them in light of human evolutionary history. The main sources of evolutionary psychology are: cognitive psychology, genetics, ethology, anthropology, biology, zoology, etc. It has long been recognized (e.g., Galen, Paley) that organisms consist of functional mechanisms—hearts, lungs, livers, bones, prostates, uteruses, etc.—but before 1859 their origin was unknown. Darwin and Wallace proposed that these mechanisms—termed adaptations—evolved by natural selection and, thus, necessarily were designed to promote reproduction. Psychologists have demonstrated that cognitive processes, like the body's other mechanisms, have functional structure. Evolutionary psychologists propose that this structure, just like the structure of the rest of the body, evolved by natural selection to serve reproduction. Given that the brain mechanisms underpinning vision, hearing, motor control, pain, memory, etc., have obvious reproductive utility, this proposition is compelling. Further, these examples suggest that the brain is made up of many functionally specialized parts. Evolutionary psychology draws on well-accepted evolutionary principles identical to those used by scientists researching both the evolved behavior and cognition of non-human animals, as well as the evolved structure of body parts like bones and muscles. Nonetheless, EP is controversial, especially regarding its hypotheses concerning innate psychological sex differences. Scores of researchers have published in this field, and the applications of evolutionary psychology include economics, aggression, law, psychiatry, politics, literature, sex, etc. In fact, scholars in just about every field of the social sciences and humanities have employed EP in their research. In addition to Cosmides and Tooby, some of the best known authors are: Donald Symons, David Buss, Margo Wilson, Martin Daly, Steven Pinker, Robert Wright, David C. Geary, Geoffrey Miller, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Robin Dunbar. See also: Sociobiology, Behavioural genetics. External Links
This article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer The Moral Animal : Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition Series) by Scott Atran A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond by William H. Calvin The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, Second Edition by David Buss What Is Evolutionary Psychology: Explaining the New Science of the Mind (Darwinism Today) by Leda Cosmides Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans Human Evolutionary Psychology by Louise Barrett A People That Shall Dwell Alone : Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples by Kevin B. MacDonald Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson Toward a New Personology : An Evolutionary Model by Theodore Millon Evolution and Human Behavior by John Cartwright The Functional Mind: Readings in Evolutionary Psychology by Douglas T. Kenrick Recent Evolutionary_psychology related patents From USPTO: |