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Evolutionary psychology is an important and rapidly expanding area in the life, social, and behavioral sciences, and this Handbook represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference text in the field today. Chapters in this Handbook address theory and research that integrates evolutionary psychology with other life, social, and behavioral sciences, as well as with the humanities. The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in all areas of psychology, and in related disciplines across the life, social, and behavioral sciences. Part 1: Integration within Psychology; Part 2: Integration with other Life, Social, and Behavioral Sciences; and Part 3: Integration with the Humanities.
Evolutionary Psychology and Anthropology
Evolutionary Psychology and Anthropology
Introduction
An interest in human evolution has a long history in anthropology, but it was not until the 1970s that an explicitly Darwinian view of human behavior galvanized scholars simultaneously in anthropology, biology, and psychology. The fields of evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology share a theoretical foundation in natural and sexual selection, and both reject what Tooby and Cosmides (1992) have called the ‘standard social science model’ of human nature as a blank slate unconstrained by biology. Yet the early years were also fractured by disputes between the fields. Evolutionary psychologists faulted evolutionary anthropologists (especially human ...
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