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Essential Evolutionary Psychology introduces students tthe core theories, approaches, and findings that are the necessary foundations for developing an understanding of evolutionary psychology It offers a sound, brief, and student friendly explication of how evolutionary theory has been and is applied in psychology The book unpicks the very essence of human evolution, and how this knowledge is used tgive evolutionary accounts of four of the central pillars of human behavior - cooperation, attraction, aggression, and family formation It alscovers evolutionary accounts of abnormal behavior, language and culture The textbook then closes with a discussion of the wider objections tthe very notion of evolutionary psychology, and, taking the view that evolutionary approaches are not going tgaway it looks at how evolutionary psychology may develop in the future Accessible, lively and rich with the latest research ideas as vignettes, Essential Evolutionary Psychology should be main textbook reading for undergraduate students taking courses in Evolutionary Psychology or Evolution & Human Behavior It should alsbe recommended reading tintroductory students studying the Brain and Behavior
