Evolutionary approaches to human behavior fall into three broad categories: behavioral
ecological anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and cultural inheritance theory. All make …

Human behavioral ecology may be defined as the study of the evolutionary ecology of
human behavior. Its central problem is to discover the ways in which the behavior of modem …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides a broad overview of the questions addressed by …

Historically, evolutionary theory applied to human behavior has often been used to explain
and justify existing social arrangements and institutions. Biological explanations of human …

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 …

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

An evolutionary understanding of human behavior and cognition has progressed
considerably in the past 30 years. In the early years of" sociobiology" researchers, following …

Recent books and articles have made strong claims for an evolutionary explanation of
various human behaviors. These writings may be classified according to two positions on …

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 …

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