Evolutionary Psychology index

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Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Theory, Paleoanthropology, Adaptationism

(revised 3 September 2006; search engine)

Introduction(Bibliography)

Tooby and Cosmides: The Evolutionary Psychology Primer (local)

Has Natural Selection Shaped How Human Beings Reason? (external)

Sociobiology and the Fallacy of Fitness Maximization: Some Historical Background
Evolutionary Psychology: An Integrative Approach
Recent compilations:

Predator-Prey Cognition Project (Clark Barrett's site at MPI)
Implicit Pedagogy: From Chase Play to Collaborative Worldmaking (Steen & Owens 2000)
Papers on evolutionary theory (external)
Behavior, Evolution and Culture lecture series at UCLA (external)
Evolutionary Psychology eGroup (external web-based discussion)
Evolutionary Psychology links at PsychNet

Evolutionary Theory (Bibliography)

The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: Darwinism weds genetics
Landmarks in the History of Genetics - see also Genetics notes
Natural Selection: Death, sexual selection, kin selection - see also Neuroscience notes
Situated Cognition of the Biological Kind: Notes on the natural limits to genetic determinism
Speaker series on adaptationism at Michigan (1/2000)
Evolutionary Responses to Parasites
Animal Cognition and Culture

Boesch and Tomasello: Chimpanzee and Human Culture (4/99)
Povinelli: Chimpanzees don't read minds (12/99)
John Wilkins: Darwin's Precursors and Influences (external)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)

Paleoanthropology (Bibliography)

Hominid Family History: from australopithecines to homo sapiens (5/05)

Skulls and cranial casts of the Homininae (3/99)

Howard Gardner reviews Steven Mithen's The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science and Anjana Ahuja interviews the author
Peter Frost: Why Do Europeans Have So Many Hair and Eye Colors? (9/06)
Local California History: The Chumash (a different area of CogWeb)
Transitions in Prehistory: Special issue of Science (11/98)
Paleolithic Art (9/01)

Cognitive Adaptations (under construction; mainly notes)

Cognitive Cultural Studies
Paleolithic Art

Glossary
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