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Rob Boyd's Home Page
evolutionary psychology of the mechanisms that give rise to and shape human culture (University of California at Los Angeles).
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/boyd/

Extractions: Unlike other organisms, humans acquire a rich body of information from others by teaching, imitation, and other forms of social learning, and this culturally transmitted information strongly influences human behavior. Culture is an essential part of the human adaptation, and as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion or thick enamel on our molars. My research is focused on the evolutionary psychology of the mechanisms that give rise to and shape human culture, and how these mechanisms interact with population dynamic processes to shape human cultural variation. I have done much of this work in collaboration with Peter J. Richerson. Dept. of Anthropology University of California Los Angeles , CA 90095 rboyd@anthro.ucla.edu phone: 310 206 8008 fax: 310 206 7833 Nature of Cultures
Evolutionary Psychology
evolutionary psychology is the application of evolutionary principles to the understandingof human behavior; essentially, it is human sociobiology. I feel
http://faculty.washington.edu/dpbarash/evolutionary.html

Extractions: Evolutionary psychology is the application of evolutionary principles to the understanding of human behavior; essentially, it is "human sociobiology." I feel strongly that a thorough understanding of human behavior must be based on a solid evolutionary framework, and accordingly, I've been especially concerned with research into the following: inclusive fitness theory and its implications for altruism and cooperation, as well as intolerance and racism; male-female differences in sexual behavior and inclinations; parenting strategies including the conundrum of parent-offspring conflict; the underlying causes of interpersonal and interstate violence; and the application of game theory (including Evolutionarily Stable Strategies) to interpersonal interactions.
Steven Pinker
Language, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology (MIT).
http://www.mit.edu/~pinker/

Extractions: Biographical Information: Click on drawing Selected Articles in Magazines and Newspapers Biographical Information: photo credit: www.harryborden.com Steven Pinker is Peter de Florez Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biographical sketch Curriculum Vitae Summary of Current Research There is an Unofficial Web Page about Steven Pinker maintained by Gen Kuroki. It contains reviews and discussions of The Language Instinct , abstracts of Pinker's articles in professional journals, and other sources. Return to top "The Game of the Name New York Times, April 3, 1994.
Psychology 452 Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology 452, evolutionary psychology. Dr. Mills. Course syllabus. OVERVIEWWHAT IS evolutionary psychology? UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTION,
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/faculty/mmills_fp/Evolpsyc/

Extractions: Psychology 452 Evolutionary Psychology Dr. Mills Course syllabus Classes: Spring, 2003 / Fall, 2002 Fall, 2001 Fall, 2000 Fall, 1999 What is evolutionary psychology? See a video of Steven Pinker discussing his book The Blank Slate Also see the Human Behavior and Evolution Society website: www.hbes.com BOOK AND ARTICLE SUMMARIES AND REVIEWS BY STUDENTS OVERVIEW: WHAT IS EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY? UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTION Summary and Powerpoint Presentation of book chapter by R. Thornhill. (1997). Characterizing human psychological adaptations. In Ciba Foundation Symposium, Characterizing human psychological adaptations: The concept of evolved Adaptation THE HUMAN ANCESTRAL ENVIRONMENT Summary of Boyd and Silk of How Humans Evolved , Chapters 11 and 12 (The Lives of Early Hominids), by Rachel Stern and James Sweeney (Fall, 01). Powerpoint presentation Summary of Jared Diamond's, The Third Chimpanzee Summary of William Iron's article " Human Adaptation to the Ancient World"
Mike Jordan, Ph.D. Psychology At FMU
evolutionary psychology; social cognition; close relationships and relationship breakup; sex differences in memory; jealousy; (Francis Marion University, South Carolina).
http://www.fmarion.edu/mjord/
MITECS: Evolutionary Psychology
evolutionary psychology. (1992). The Adapted Mind evolutionary psychologyand the Generation of Culture. New York Oxford University Press.
http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Articles/cosmides.html

Extractions: Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the cognitive sciences in which evolutionary biology is integrated with the cognitive, neural, and behavioral sciences to guide the systematic mapping of the species-typical computational and neural architectures of animal species, including humans. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby Barkow, J., L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby, Eds. (1992). The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Dawkins, R. (1982) The Extended Phenotype. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Gallistel, C. R. (1995) The replacement of general-purpose theories with adaptive specializations. In M. S. Gazzaniga, Ed.
MITECS: Sexual Attraction, Evolutionary Psychology Of
Sexual Attraction, evolutionary psychology of. evolutionary psychologyis evolutionary biology applied to the brain's adaptations.
http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Articles/thornhill.html

Extractions: Evolutionary psychology is evolutionary biology applied to the brain's adaptations. An adaptation is a phenotypic feature, psychological or otherwise, whose ultimate cause is some type of historical Darwinian selection (Thornhill 1997). Genes, physiology, development, and environment are proximate causes of each adaptation. Because adaptations are the products of past selection, they exhibit functional or purposeful design. Evolutionary psychology's focus is on identifying and characterizing psychological adaptations, which are functionally designed for processing information about survival and reproductive success in human evolutionary history. Randy Thornhill Baker, R. R. and M. A. Bellis. (1995). Human Sperm Competition: Copulation, Masturbation and Infidelity. London: Chapman and Hall.
Individualism And Evolutionary Psychology
Online paper by David Buller.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/03/28/cog00000328-00/indy&
Evolutionary Psychology - Wikipedia
evolutionary psychology. The main sources of evolutionary psychology are cognitivepsychology, genetics, ethology, anthropology, biology, zoology, etc.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby coined the term evolutionary psychology (EP) in their 1992 book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture . They proposed that human cognition and behavior could be better understood by examining them in light of human evolutionary history. The main sources of evolutionary psychology are : cognitive psychology genetics ethology anthropology ... zoology , etc. It has long been recognized (e.g., Galen, Paley) that organisms consist of functional mechanismshearts, lungs, livers, bones, prostates, uteruses, etc.but before 1859 their origin was unknown. Darwin and Wallace proposed that these mechanismstermed adaptationsevolved by natural selection and, thus, necessarily were designed to promote reproduction. Psychologists have demonstrated that cognitive processes, like the bodys other mechanisms, have functional structure. Evolutionary psychologists propose that this structure evolved by natural selection to serve reproduction. Given that the brain mechanisms underpinning vision, hearing, motor control, pain, memory, etc., have obvious reproductive utility, this proposition is compelling. Further, these examples suggest that the brain is made up of many functionally specialized parts.
Syllabus For PSY 470(03): Evolutionary Psychology
evolutionary psychology. PSY 470, Section 03 (Spring 2003). COURSE SYLLABUS. FINALEXAM Tue. 5/1 500 pm, back to top evolutionary psychology Links.
http://faculty.wm.edu/lakirk/syll470.html

Extractions: Millington 123 Dawkins, R. (1989). The selfish gene (new edition) [original edition pub. 1976]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Buss, D. M. (1999). Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind Additional readings will be available either on reserve (at Swem and/or electronic reserve) or via the WWW. Overview and Goals This course is designed to provide an introduction to an exciting (at least to me) emerging paradigm in social science research. I use the word "paradigm" advisedly: "Evolutionary psychology" refers not to a specific set of research topics or content area, but rather to a fundamentally different approach to thinking about human nature and how it interacts with environments to produce patterns of cognition, emotion, and behavior. Although appreciation of this approach to psychological research is growing, it remains highly controversial in psychology (as well as other social science) circles. back to top Course Requirements and Grades Your grade will be based on the following: a midterm exam, covering Dawkins and corresponding lecture material (30%); a final exam, covering Buss and corresponding lecture material (30%); and major paper due near the end of the semester (40%). See schedule below for dates.
Science As Culture - SOCIOBIOLOGY SANITIZED: THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND GEN
Sociopolitical overview of the circumstances leading to the development of evolutionary psychology as distinct from Sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This web page is associated with the Science-as-Culture mailing list and journal.
http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/dusek.html

Extractions: Evolutionary Psychology Online The Open Directory by Val Dusek Amazon US UK I Two decades later the debate concerning the genetic determination of human behavior has been reanimated in the general intellectual and middle-brow media with a somewhat more restrained tone. The study of evolutionary accounts of human behavior is now called "evolutionary psychology" to avoid some of the justifiably bad connotations that were associated with sociobiology. During the last few years the linguist Steve Pinker, ( ) philosopher Daniel Dennett, ( ) New Republic editor and science popularizer Robert Wright,( ) and science writer Matt Ridley ( ) have produced feisty, polemical expositions of evolutionary psychology for a broad audience. Stephen J. Gould has returned to the breach to criticize evolutionary psychology, but several writers considered to be on the left have defended sociobiological approaches and criticized postmodern rejection of biologism. The core theories of evolutionary psychology are the same as those of sociobiology. Several of the commonly made distinctions between evolutionary psychology and sociobiology turn out not to distinguish the two. So what has changed and what is new?
Evolutionary Psychology
evolutionary psychology Psychologists are using evolutionary argumentswith increasing frequency, so it is important for anyone
http://www.du.edu/~vstone/evpsy.htm
Times Online
What is the relationship between spatial ability, finger length, and sporting prowess?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-91237,00.html

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Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
evolutionary psychology (DigiPack) From XanEdu Learning Materials. EvolutionaryPsychology ByCosmides, Leda; Tooby, John Hardcover (2000).
http://www.fathom.com/feature/35533

Extractions: We are used to doing this in terms of the human body. It is not controversial to say that because the human body evolved the way it did, it might explain certain things, like, for example, our proneness to back problems. Clearly the human backbone was never designed for upright walking. Originally backbones evolved in quadrupedal animals, and we have become upright relatively recently, in evolutionary terms. As a result, we have a lot of back problems. I think that is an obvious insight.
SALVE Science News
The Human Nature Daily Review news digested by Ian Pitchford 2002-03-14 AlasPoor evolutionary psychology Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned Essay Review
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Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
Andrew Brown explains why 'Introducing evolutionary psychology', the latest in Icon Books' popular series of comic books on important subjects, has been withdrawn from sale while 10,000 stickers are pasted over the face of Steven Rose.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3936439,00.html

Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Network home UK news World latest Books ... Search Inside Story Origins of the specious They're all Darwin's children, but for years leading scientists have been engaged in an unseemly squabble over just how much human behaviour can be explained by our DNA. Now, a row over a comic book has escalated the feud. Andrew Brown reports Guardian Tuesday November 30, 1999 Introducing Evolutionary Psychology, the latest in Icon Books' popular series of comic books on important subjects, has been withdrawn from sale while 10,000 stickers are pasted over the face of Steven Rose, professor of biology at the Open university, on page 155. The stickers contain an apology dictated by Rose, along with a plug for his latest book Lifelines, alongside the original speech bubble which, as the sticker points out, is "a misleading caricature of his views... which in no way represents his well-known scientific opinions on the complex interactions between biological and social environment during development." None the less, misleading caricatures are common in disputes about evolutionary biology. The more popular they are, the more misleading they become. Rose is himself a fearsomely rude controversialist. Why force a correction by mentioning legal advice in a letter of complaint to the publishers? The answer, he says, is that the offence was committed in a speech bubble. "The author had literally put into my mouth a completely fatuous statement which was not one which any biologist or any sane person would make." The original bubble says: "Whether you become a genius or an idiot depends entirely on what environment you live in", and it's hard to see how anyone with even an O-level in biology could say that. "I am happy to have a public discussion about intellectual or scientific or political issues," says Rose. "But a bubble in somebody's mouth making a completely fatuous statement is simply defamatory."
Evolutionary Psychology Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species. evolutionary psychology and theprofound insights into human nature attained by the Poets and Mystics.
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/evolutionary_psychology.html

Extractions: Those who are establishing Evolutionary Psychology as a branch of Science tend to hold, as their prime article of Scientific Faith, that "The Human Mind" has been effectively designed by evolutionary forces such that the human being, or rather the group of closely genetically related human beings, in question will have enhanced possibilities of survival in order to procreate and hence to transmit their genes. Those who attempt to answer this question are presently involved in several associated fields of Scientific study that seek to investigate Human psychology in all its fullness. But, as yet, it seems that those involved have effectively ignored an uniquely rich source of highly persuasive and relevant material i.e. the insights of the Mystics and Poets!!!
Paul Ehrlich Challenges Evolutionary Psychology And The 'selfish Gene' In His Ne
Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/humans920.html

Extractions: e-mail: mshwartz@stanford.edu Do "selfish genes" program men to be more promiscuous than women? Beneath the veneer of civility, are people innately aggressive? Some researchers and a growing segment of the general population - would answer "yes" to those and a host of other questions, suggesting that we are tightly programmed by our genes. But according to Stanford evolutionist Paul R. Ehrlich, there is little scientific basis for such widely accepted notions. Ehrlich challenges the so-called "selfish gene" and other tenets of evolutionary psychology in his wide-ranging new book , Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect (Shearwater Books/Island Press, Washington, D.C.).
Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
The past decade witnessed the surge of evolutionary psychology . Its most thoughtful exponents, such as Robert Plomin, are confident that economics, education and sociology will all benefit from evolutionary psychology and gene mapping.
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Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Network home UK news World latest Books ... Search "If you want to know the obvious, ask a psychologist." Has psychology become respectable at last? Lynne Segal Guardian Tuesday March 13, 2001 Before the meteoric rise of cultural studies in the 80s made it a sitting duck for academic satirists such as Laurie Taylor, psychology was a favourite target: "If you want to know the obvious, ask a psychologist." Taylor had primary source material, launching his own career as a psychologist four decades ago with "a nonsensical piece of research" on the correlation between eye-contact and interpersonal agreement. Measuring eye contact remains a staple of social psychology. Oxford psychologist Michael Argyle is prominent in the field: we tend to look more at people we like. Broadening his variables to include issues of key social concern, such as leisure, Argyle more recently discovered: "Involvement in sports usually begins in childhood when the main influences are parents and peers."

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