Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the MindAllyn and Bacon, 2004 - 455 páginas Focuses on the field of evolutionary psychology. This second edition offers a logical progression of topics by discussing adaptive problems that humans face. It integrates material on cognition and language throughout the text. It includes stories, media and cultural examples and illustrations, and applications to the personal lives of students. |
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... woman was ovulating to one of determining which women were likely to be capable of conceiving children - the problem of determining a woman's reproductive value or fertility . Reproductive value refers to the number of children a person ...
... woman was ovulating to one of determining which women were likely to be capable of conceiving children - the problem of determining a woman's reproductive value or fertility . Reproductive value refers to the number of children a person ...
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... woman of a given age is likely to have , on average , in the future . Data extrapolated from Symons ( 1979 ) ; Williams ( 1975 ) . potentially observable cues would have been a woman's youth and her health ( Symons , 1979 ; Williams ...
... woman of a given age is likely to have , on average , in the future . Data extrapolated from Symons ( 1979 ) ; Williams ( 1975 ) . potentially observable cues would have been a woman's youth and her health ( Symons , 1979 ; Williams ...
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... woman to get rid of her long - term mate . Because men in many cultures often divorce wives who have affairs ( Betzig , 1989 ) , having an affair would be an effective means for the woman to initiate a breakup . Another variant of this ...
... woman to get rid of her long - term mate . Because men in many cultures often divorce wives who have affairs ( Betzig , 1989 ) , having an affair would be an effective means for the woman to initiate a breakup . Another variant of this ...
Índice
PART ONE Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology | 1 |
The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology | 2 |
The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology | 36 |
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Términos y frases comunes
adaptive problems ancestral average behavior benefits Buss Chapter child chimpanzees coalitions cognitive commitment competition conflict context cooperation Cosmides costs cues cultures Daly & Wilson Darwin designed desire dominance emotional empirical Ethology evidence evolution evolutionary psychology evolutionary theory evolved psychological mechanisms example father female fertile friends friendship function genes genetic relatedness genetic relatives Hamilton's rule hierarchies homicide hunting hypothesis important inclusive fitness increase individuals infanticide infidelity intrasexual jealousy killed long-term mate male marriage mate preferences men's mother natural selection Neanderthals occur offspring older opposite sex ovulation parent-offspring conflict parental investment percent person perspective physically attractive polygyny potential predators predicted rated reciprocal altruism relationship reproductive success reproductive value risk same-sex sex differences sex partners sexual access sexual aggression sexual selection short-term mating social solve species sperm status suggests survival tend testosterone tion Tooby woman women Yanomamö