The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition.

Lance Workman (Edited by), Will Reader (Edited by), Jerome H. Barkow (Edited by)

9781316642818, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2020

578 pages, 22 b/w illus. 21 tables
27.9 x 21.7 x 2.7 cm, 1.63 kg

'This book is a state-of-the-art compendium for understanding human nature. Chapters range from traditional Darwinian concerns about topics like mating and morality through to contemporary issues such as psychopathology and the impacts of social media. This handbook is as appealing for students as it is for professional scholars.' Richard Wrangham, Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, and author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields such as evolutionary psychology, ethology, and human behavioral ecology, this insight has also influenced cognitive science, neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, media studies, and clinical psychology. This handbook's goal is to amplify the wave by bringing together world-leading experts to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of evolution-oriented and influenced fields. While evolutionary psychology remains at the core of the collection, it also covers the history, current standing, debates, and future directions of the panoply of fields entering the Darwinian fold. As such, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior is a valuable reference not just for evolutionary psychologists but also for scholars and students from many fields who wish to see how the evolutionary perspective is relevant to their own work.

Introduction
Part I. The Comparative Approach: 1. Human-grey parrot comparisons in cognitive performance
2. Cognitive abilities in elephants
3. Culture and communication among cetaceans
Part II. Sociocultural Anthropology and Evolution: 4. Eusociality in humans
5. The nature and psychological foundation of social universals
6. The study of culture and evolution across disciplines
Part III. Evolution and Neuroscience: 7. Are evolutionary psychology and the neuroscience of motivation compatible?
8. Are we designed to be happy? The neuroscience of making sense of pleasure
9. Environmental pressures on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: an evolutionary development mechanism influencing atypical neurodevelopment in autism?
Part IV. Group Living – The Evolution of Social and Moral Behavior: 10. The problem of altruism and future directions
11. Can evolutionary processes explain the origins of morality?
12. The evolution and function of third-party moral judgment
13. Evolution of the human family
14. The parasite-stress theory of cultural values and sociality
15. The evolution of pride and shame
16. Thinking outside the head: cognitive ecologies and evolutionary psychology
Part V. Evolution and Cognition: 17. Runaway processes in modern human culture: an evolutionary approach to exaggerated communication in present human societies
18. Ontogeny of tactical deception
19. The evolution of language: a Darwinian approach
20. The adaptive problem of exploiting resources: human foraging behavior in patchy environments
Part VI. Evolution and Development: 21. Evolutionary developmental psychology: developing adaptations in infancy and childhood
22. The ontogeny and evolution of cooperation
23. Genomic imprinting is critical for understanding the development and adaptive design of psychological mechanisms in humans and other animals
24. Evolutionary explanations for bullying behavior
25. Birth order and evolutionary psychology
Part VII. Sexual Selection and Human Sex Differences: 26. Survival, selection, and sex differences in fear
27. The enigmatic urge: how sexual desire works
28. Are humans peacocks or robins?
29. Human mate selection: a multidimensional approach
30. Kin selection and the evolution of male androphilia
31. Evolutionary psychology: thoughts on integrating feminist perspectives
Part VIII. Abnormal Behavior and Evolutionary Psychopathology: 32. Psychopathology from an evolutionary perspective
33. Are we on the verge of Darwinian psychiatry?
34. The evolution of prosocial behavior: from caring to compassion
35. Disordered social cognition: alexithymia and interoception
Part IX. Applying Evolutionary Principles: 36. A bridge too far? Evolutionary psychology and the solutions of social problems
37. The evolution of personality
38. Applying evolutionary principles to criminality
39. Substitute parenting
40. Historians and the evolutionary approach to human behavior
41. The psychology of extraterrestrials: the new frontier?
Part X. Evolution and the Media: 42. Daily talk shows as virtual gossip communities
43. Supernormal stimuli in the media
44. An evolutionary approach to horror media
45. The internet is for porn: evolutionary perspectives on online pornography
Index.

Subject Areas: Popular psychology [VSP], Developmental biology [PSC], Evolution [PSAJ], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM], Child & developmental psychology [JMC], Psychology [JM]