This work is intended to portray the interrelationship of heredity, individual development, and
the evolution of species in a way that can be understood by nonspecialists. In striving to offer …

In this stimulating book, Goldsmith argues that biology has a great deal to say that should be
of interest to social scientists, historians, philosophers, and humanists in general. He …

It is our goal in this text to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme for exposing
students to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior and to demonstrate that …

This text is the first to provide a coherent theoretical treatment of the flourishing new field of
developmental psychobiology which has arisen in recent years on the crest of exciting …

There has been a conceptual revolution in the biological sciences over the past several
decades. Evidence from genetics, embryology, and developmental biology has converged …

Evolutionary psychology: The ultimate origins of human behavior. Evolutionary psychology:
The ultimate origins of human behavior. Citation Palmer, JA, & Palmer, LK (2002). Evolutionary …

Quantitative genetics—the statistical study of the inheritance of traits within a population—
has become an important tool for studying the evolution of behavior in the last decade …

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 …

It is a hard-won insight that developmental change is essential to evolution, and the issue
has received little consideration in the psychological literature. The origin of the concept can …

Two worlds merge in the perspective we take for this chapter. One world is derived from
behavioral ecology, the other from the discipline of developmental psychobiology. Their …