Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind 5th Edition

CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENTS LEADING TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY Chapter Summary Evolutionary biology has undergone many historical developments. Evolutionchange over time in organisms was suspected to occur long before Charles Darwin came on the scene. Missing before him, however, was a theory about a causal process that could

CHAPTER 10: AGGRESSION AND WARFARE Chapter Summary From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, aggression is not a singular or a unitary phenomenon. Rather, it represents a collection of strategies that are manifested under highly specific contextual conditions. The mechanisms underlying aggression have emerged, in this view, as solutions,

CHAPTER 11: CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SEXES Chapter Summary Sexual conflict is defined as genetic conflict of interest between individual males and females. Conflict between men and women pervades social living, from disagreements on dates to emotional distress within marriages. Evolutionary psychology provides several key insights into why such

CHAPTER 12: STATUS, PRESTIGE, AND SOCIAL DOMINANCE Chapter Summary This chapter explored the evolutionary psychology of status and social dominance, phenomena that are observed widely throughout the animal world from crayfish to humans. A dominance hierarchy refers to the fact that some individuals within a group reliably gain

CHAPTER 13: TOWARD A UNIFIED EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY Chapter Summary Toward a Unified Psychology In this chapter, we have considered how evolutionary psychology approaches the major branches of psychology including cognitive, social, developmental, personality, clinical, and cultural psychology. Evolutionary psychology has also proved informative for other sub-branches of psychology,

CHAPTER 2: THE NEW SCIENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY Chapter Summary This chapter covered four topics: (1) the logic of generating hypotheses about our evolved psychological mechanisms, (2) the products of the evolutionary process, (3) the nature of evolved psychological mechanisms, and (4) the scientific procedures by which we

CHAPTER 3: COMBATING THE HOSTILE FORCES OF NATURE: HUMAN SURVIVAL PROBLEMS Chapter Summary Food shortages, toxins, predators, parasites, diseases, and extremes of climate are hostile forces of nature that recurrently plagued our ancestors. Humans have evolved adaptions to combat these impediments to survival. One of the most important

CHAPTER 4: WOMENS LONG-TERM MATING STRATEGIES Chapter Summary We now have the outlines of an answer to the mystery of womens long-term mate preferences. Modern women have inherited from their successful ancestors wisdom about the men they consent to mate with. Ancestral women who mated indiscriminately were likely

CHAPTER 5: MENS LONG-TERM MATING STRATEGIES Chapter Summary There were many potential benefits to ancestral men who married. They would have increased their chances of attracting a mate, especially a more desirable mate. By marrying, men would have increased their certainty in paternity because they gained continuous

CHAPTER 6: SHORT-TERM SEXUAL STRATEGIES Chapter Summary The scientific study of mating over the course of the twentieth century has focused nearly exclusively on marriage. Human anatomy, physiology, and psychology, however, betray an ancestral past filled with affairs and short-term mating. The obvious reproductive advantages of short-term mating

CHAPTER 7: PROBLEMS OF PARENTING Chapter Summary From an evolutionary perspective, offspring are the vehicles for parents genes. Selection should favor parental adaptations that function to ensure the survival and reproduction of offspring. Mechanisms of parental care have been documented in many nonhuman species. One of the most

CHAPTER 8: PROBLEMS OF KINSHIP Chapter Summary We started this chapter by delving deeper into Hamiltons (1964) theory of inclusive fitness, formalized by Hamiltons rule c 6 rb. For altruism to evolve, the cost to the actor must be less than the benefits provided, multiplied by the genetic

CHAPTER 9: COOPERATIVE ALLIANCES Chapter Summary We started this chapter by considering the problem of altruism: design features that aid the reproduction of other individuals, even though the altruist who has this feature incurs a cost. The puzzle is how such altruism could have evolved, given that it