Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology / edited by R. I. M. Dunbar and Louise Barrett

Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Section 1: Philosophical issues. Evolutionary psychology in the round / Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett ; The power of culture / Henry Plotkin ; Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective / Matteo Mameli ; Niche construction, human behaviooural ecology and evolutionary psychology / Kevin N. Laland ; Group-level evolutionary processes / David Sloan Wilson Section 2: The comparative approach. Homologizing the mind / Drew Rendall, Hugh Notman and John R. Vokey ; Social knowledge in primates / Josep Call ; Social cognition in non-primates / Redouan Bshary, Lucie H. Salwiczek and Wolfgang Wickler ; Culture in primates and other animals / Carel P. van Schaik ; Empathy, sympathy and prosocial preferences in primates / Joan B. Silk Section 3: Evolutionary neurobiology and cognition. Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system / Robert A. Barton ; The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial Brain / Jaak Panksepp ; Neural pathways of social cognition / Tjeerd Jellema and David I. Perrett ; Mirror neurons and social cognition / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Leonardo Fogassi ; Mechanisms of ecolocial rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart / Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer Section 4: Development. The evolution of empathizing and systemizing: assortative mating of two stron systemizers and the cause of autism / Simon Baron-Cohen ; The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation / Emily Wyman and Michael Tomasello ; Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies / Jay Belsky ; Parental impacts on development: how proximate factors mediate adaptive plans / Tamas Bereczkei ; Evolution of stress response to social threat / Mark V. Flinn ; Birth order and sibling competition / Frank J. Sulloway Section 5: Mating, reproduction and life history. Body odours and body odour preferences in humans / Claus Wedekind ; Reproductive strategies and tactics / Steven W. Gangestad ; Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection / Gillian Rhodes and Leigh W. Simmons ; Sex differences in aggression / Anne Campbell ; The evolutionary ecology of human family size / Ruth Mace ; Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans / Virpi Lummaa ; Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies / Eckart Voland ; Risk and decision-making / Bruce Winterhalder Section 6: The self and the social world. Ecolocial and socio-cultural imapcts on making and marriage systems / Bobbi S. Low ; Kinship and descent / Lee Cronk and Drew Gerkey ; Individual differences / Daniel Nettle ; Human evolution and social cognition / Mark Schaller, Justin H. Park and Douglas T. Kenrick ; Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective / John J. Skowronski and Constantine Sedikides ; Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies / John H. Crook ; Competitve altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups / Mark Van Vugt, Gilbert Roberts and Charlie Hardy ; Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruism / Frank Salter Section 7: Cultural evolution. Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution / Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath ; Modelling cultural evolution / Richard McElreath and Joseph Henrich ; Evolutionary perspectives in arcaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution / Stephan Shennan ; Memes / Robert Aunger ; Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans / Herb Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr ; The evolution of religion / Joseph A. Bulbulia ; Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama / Joseph Carroll ; Music and cognition evolution / Ian Cross ; The evolution of language / Simon Kirby

"The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. With contributions from over fifty experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. In addition to well studied areas of investigation, such as mate choice and reproduction, the volume also includes chapters on the philosophical underpinnings of evolutionary psychology, comparative perspectives from other species, recent neurobiological findings, and gets to grips with the issue of cultural evolution in relation to human psychology. All the chapters combine a solid review of the relevant literature with well reasoned arguments and robust discussions of the major findings, as well as original insights and suggestions for future work. All the chapters are written by active researchers in the field of evolutionary psychology and so, as might be expected, a wide diversity of opinions is presented. The critical, wide-ranging and diverse discussions are thought-provoking and, taken together, the handbook as a whole provides a well balanced assessment of current research, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In addition, the editors provide an initial chapter and section introductions that place the contributions in context and help guide the reader by highlighting the major themes raised by the contributors. While each chapter thus stands on its own, and the book can be used as a work of reference, the integration of themes across chapters and sections means it can also be read in its entirety as a complement to textbooks and other publications in the field. The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is the definitive text on this burgeoning field."--Amazon.com