Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

Human beings persist in an extraordinary range of ecological settings, in the process
exhibiting enormous behavioural diversity, both within and between populations. People …

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in
ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural …

This chapter aims to compare the approaches known as evolutionary psychology,
behavioral ecology, and dual inheritance theory with respect to their key assumptions …

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used as a text for graduate students and a
sourcebook for professional scientists seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and …

To properly understand behavior, we must obtain both ultimate and proximate explanations.
Put briefly, ultimate explanations are concerned with why a behavior exists, and proximate …

Human behaviour is marvellous in its complexity, variability and unpredictability.
Understanding it, however, is not solely the role of psychologists: everyone has a vested …

Abstract Evolution of Human Behavior is the first text to synthesize and compare the major
proposals for human behavioral evolution from an anthropological perspective. Ideal for …

The past decade has seen an upsurge of interest in the application of evolutionary thinking
to the study of human behavior. This introductory book provides an overview of the key …

A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and
methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary …