Preface to the Second Edition | |
Preface to the First Edition | |
Acknowledgments | |
Foundations Of Evolutionary Psychology | |
Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary | |
PsychologyLandmarks in the History of Evolutionary | |
Psychology Evolution before Darwin Darwin's | |
Theory of Natural Selection Darwin's | |
Theory of Sexual Selection | |
The Role of Natural and Sexual Selection in Evolutionary | |
Theory The Modern Synthesis | |
Genes and Particulate Inheritance | |
The Ethology Movement | |
The Inclusive Fitness Revolution | |
Clarifying Adaptation and Natural Selection | |
Trivers's Seminal Theories | |
The Sociobiology Controversy | |
Common Misunderstandings About Evolutionary | |
Theory Misunderstanding | |
Human Behavior is Genetically Determined Misunderstanding | |
If It's Evolutionary, Then We Can't Change It Misunderstanding | |
Current Mechanisms are Optimally Designed | |
Milestones in the Origins of Modern Humans | |
Out of Africa versusMultiregional OriginsLandmarks in the Field of Psychology | |
Freud's psychoanalytic theory Williams James and the Psychology of Instincts | |
The Rise of Behaviorism | |
The Astonishing Discoveries of Cultural Variability | |
The Garcia effect, prepared fears, and decline of behaviorism Peering into the Black | |
Box: The Cognitive RevolutionSummary | |
The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology | |
The Origins of Human Nature | |
Three Theories of the Origins of Adaptive Mechanisms | |
The Three Products of Evolution | |
Levels of Evolutionary Analysis in Evolutionary Psychology | |
The Core of Human Nature | |
Fundamentals of Evolved Psychological Mechanisms | |
All Species Have a Nature | |
Definition of an Evolved | |
Psychological Mechanism Important Properties of Evolved | |
Psychological Mechanisms | |
Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses | |
Comparing Different Species | |
Comparing Males and Females | |
Comparing Individuals within a Species | |
Comparing the Same Individuals in Different | |
Contexts Experimental Methods | |
Sources of Data for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses | |
Archeological Records Data From Hunter-Gatherer | |
Societies Observations Self-Reports | |
Life-history Data and Public Records | |
Human Products Transcending the Limitations of Single Data Sources | |
Identifying the Adaptive Problems Guidance of Modern | |
Evolutionary Theory Guidance from Knowledge of Universal | |
Human Structures Guidance from Traditional Societies | |
Guidance from the Paleoarcheology and Paleoanthropology | |
Guidance from Current Mechanisms | |
Guidance from Task Analysis Organization of Adaptive | |
Problems | |
Summary | |
Problems Of Survival | |
Survival Problems and Solutions | |
Food Acquisition and Selection | |
Food Selection in Rats Food Selection in Humans Sickness in Pregnant Women | |
The Embryo Protection Hypothesis | |
Why Humans Like Spices | |
The Antimicrobial Hypothesis | |
Why Humans Like to Drink Alcohol | |
An Evolutionary Hangover? | |
The Hunting Hypothesis | |
The Gathering Hypothesis | |
Comparing the Hunting and Gathering Hypotheses | |
The Scavenging Hypothesis | |
Adaptations to Gathering and Hunting | |
Sex Differences in Specific Spatial Abilities | |
Finding a Place to Live | |
Shelter and Landscape | |
Preferences | |
The Savanna Hypothesis | |
Combating Predators and Other Environmental Dangers | |
Fears, Phobias, Anxieties, and "Evolutionary Memories" Most common human fears | |
The Adaptive Conservation Hypothesis of Fears Children's | |
Anti-Predator Adaptations Combating Disease | |
Are Humans Programmed to Die? | |
The Theory of Senescence | |
The Puzzle of Suicide | |
Summary | |
Challenges Of Sex and Mating | |
Women's Long-Term Mating Strategies | |
Theoretical Background for the Evolution of Mate | |
Preferences | |
Asexual versus Sexual Reproduction Parental Investment and Sexual Selection | |
Mate Preferences as Evolved Psychological Mechanisms | |
The Content of Women's | |
Mate Preferences | |
Preference for Economic Resources | |
Preference for Good Financial Prospects | |
Preference for High Social Status | |
Preference for Older Men | |
Preference for Ambition and Industriousness | |
Preference for Dependability and Stability | |
Preference for Size and Strength | |
Preference for Good Health and | |
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