Essential Evolutionary Psychology

Darwin's Argument and Three Problems Heritability, Sexual Selection and Altruism What Is Evolutionary Psychology? The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness Brains, Minds and Consciousness Co-Operation and Interdependence Families and Parenting Mate Selection Competition, Aggression and Violence Evolution and Language Evolution and Abnormal Psychology Evolution and Culture The Future of Evolutionary Psychology

`It is refreshing, in the wake of the sometimes uncritical enthusiasm for evolutionary psychology, to read a thoughtful and balanced account of the problems as well as the benefits of an evolutionary perspective on human behaviour' - Professor Anne Campbell, Durham University