Books: Evolutionary Psychology
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- Jerome Barkow et al, The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture ( ISBN 0195101073 )
- A must have for students of evolutionary psychology. Contains invaluable essays on a host of topics.
- David Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, Second Edition ( ISBN 0205370713 )
- A textbook, it touches on all the bases.
- A. G. Cairns-Smith, Evolving the Mind : On the nature of matter and the origin of consciousness ( ISBN 0521402204 )
- A classic look at the evolutionary psychology of human violence.
- Linda Mealey, Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies ( ISBN 0124874606 )
- A detailed account of the ways in which human sexes are different, and why evolution made us that way.
- A history of Evolutionary Psychology and introduction to different aspects of the field.
- An interesting account of how birth order, via Triver's parental conflict extension of kin selection and inclusive fitness, shapes personality, particularly openness to scientific ideas.
- Explores rape as an adaptation, or by-product of human sexual dimorphism.
- Robert Trviers, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert L. Trivers ( ISBN 0195130626)
- A collection of must-read papers from Trivers, including those on parental investment, sibling conflict, etc.
