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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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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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The Evolutionary Psychology of War: Offense and Defense in the Adapted Mind. [PDF]
Evol Psychol, 2017 The study of warfare from an evolutionary perspective has expanded rapidly over the last couple of decades. However, it has tended to focus on the ancestral origins, prevalence, and instruments of war rather than adaptationist analyses of its underlying ...
Lopez AC.
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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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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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The Future of an Applied Evolutionary Psychology for Human Partnerships [PDF]
, 2010 There has been significant recent progress in our understanding of human mate choice. We outline several frontiers of rapid cultural change which may increasingly directly affect individual self-evaluation in the mating market, formation and maintenance ...
Shackelford, Todd K +5 more
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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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Evolutionary social psychology: Prospects and pitfalls [PDF]
, 1990 The principles of evolutionary psychology and the traditional assumptions of social psychology are highly compatible. Both disciplines trace observed behavioral variability to situational variability.
Buss, David M.
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Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Child Development, 2000 Abstract Evolutionary developmental psychology is the study of the genetic and ecological mechanisms that govern the development of social and cognitive competencies common to all human beings and the epigenetic (gene–environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions.
D C, Geary, D F, Bjorklund
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The Janus-Faced Nature of Comparative Psychology – Strength or Weakness?
Evolutionary Psychology, 2013 What is the nature of comparative psychology and how does or should it relate to evolutionary psychology? This is a time of reassessment of both fields and this article reviews the history of comparative psychology and its relationships with evolutionary
Gordon M. Burghardt
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