| Description |
xii, 666 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The psychological foundations of culture / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior / Donald Symons -- Cognitive adaptations for social exchange / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- Two nonhuman primate models for the evolution of human food sharing : chimpanzees and callitrichids / W.C. McGrew and Anna T.C. Feistner -- Mate preference mechanisms : consequences for partner choice and intrasexual competition / David M. Buss -- The evolution of sexual attraction : evaluative mechanisms in women / Bruce J. Ellis -- The man who mistook his wife for a chattel / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Pregnancy sickness as adaptation : a deterrent to maternal ingestion of teratogens / Margie Profet -- Nurturance or negligence : maternal psychology and behavioral preference among preterm twins / Janet Mann -- Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals : an evolutionary perspective / Anne Fernald -- The social nature of play fighting and play chasing : mechanisms and strategies underlying cooperation and compromise / Michael J. Boulton and Peter K. Smith -- Natural language and natural selection / Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom -- The perceptual organization of colors : an adaptation to regularities of the terrestrial world? / Roger N. Shepard -- Sex differences in spatial abilities : evolutionary theory and data / Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals -- Evolved responses to landscapes / Gordon H. Orians and Judith H. Heerwagen -- Environmental preference in a knowledge-seeking, knowledge-using organism / Stephen Kaplan -- The evolution of psychodynamic mechanisms / Randolph M. Nesse and Alan T. Lloyd -- Beneath new culture is old psychology : gossip and social stratification / Jerome H. Barkow. |
| Subject |
Genetic psychology.
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Cognition and culture.
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Behavior evolution.
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Sociobiology.
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| Added Author |
Barkow, Jerome H.
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Cosmides, Leda.
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Tooby, John.
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| ISBN |
0195101073 (pbk.) |
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9780195101072 (pbk.) |
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0195060237 |
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9780195060232 |
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