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Grand challenges of evolutionary psychology [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2010 RobertKurzban
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Cultural evolutionary psychology is still evolutionary psychology [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 AbstractThe cognitive gadgets theory proposes to reform evolutionary psychology by replacing the standard nativist and internalist approach to modularity with a cultural constructivist one. However, the resulting “cultural evolutionary psychology” still maintains some controversial aspects of the original neo-Darwinian paradigm.
Marco Fenici, Duilio Garofoli
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MaqFACS (Macaque Facial Action Coding System) can be used to document facial movements in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Human and non-human primates exhibit facial movements or displays to communicate with one another. The evolution of form and function of those displays could be better understood through multispecies comparisons. Anatomically based coding systems (Facial
Églantine Julle-Danière +6 more
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, 2012 The article presents several models of evolutionary psychology. Nativist evolutionary psychology is built around a most important insight that ordinary human decision-making has a high cognitive load. Evolutionary nativists defend a modular solution to the problem of information load on human decision-making.
Ben Jeffares, Kim Sterelny
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Evolutionary Psychology as a Metatheory for the Social Sciences [PDF]
Integral Review, 2010 Evolutionary psychology has been proposed as a metatheory for the social sciences. In this paper, the different ways in which scholars have used the concept of a metatheory in the field of evolutionary psychology is reviewed. These different ways include
Annemie Ploeger
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Human Sperm Competition: A Comparative Evolutionary Analysis [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2014 Sperm competition occurs when a female copulates with two or more males within a sufficiently brief time period, resulting in sperm of the different males competing to fertilize ova.
Michael N. Pham, Todd K. Shackelford
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Examining the Acceptance of and Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology, 2010 The field of psychology remains a divided one. Several different sub-disciplines (e.g., developmental, cognitive, behaviorism, social, etc.) form what could be a unified scientific area. However, there is no widely accepted theory of unification. Charles
Carey J. Fitzgerald +1 more
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2007 Is the term “evolutionary psychology” supplanting “sociobiology” in the scientific literature? How influential was E. O. Wilson's (1975) book, Sociobiology , in establishing the discipline of the same name?
Gregory D. Webster
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Why isn’t everyone an Evolutionary Psychologist?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Despite a widespread acceptance that the brain that underpins human psychology is the result of biological evolution, very few psychologists in any way incorporate an evolutionary perspective in their research or practice.
Darren eBurke
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Popular evolutionary psychology in the UK: an unusual case of science in the media? [PDF]
, 2016 PublishedHistorical ArticleJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tThis paper presents findings from quantitative analyses of UK press and print media coverage of evolutionary psychology during the 1990s.
Cassidy, A
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