Of course, many scientists are justifiably skeptical about such "just-so stories" in evolutionary psychology.
After thirty years, this rare gem is still advertised as a triumph for evolutionary psychology.
Mr Saad is a zealous advocate of evolutionary psychology, but readers should look elsewhere for serious scholarship.
That unconscious status-seeking motives largely drive human behavior is a major theme of recent work in evolutionary psychology.
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One of the problems with much evolutionary psychology is that it just concentrates on humans, or sometimes on humans and chimps.
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Then why do enthusiasts for evolutionary psychology insist that politicians and social scientists should pay attention to the evolutionary roots of behavior?
When men outnumber women, females marry younger and the age gap between spouses grows, the study, published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, says.
Textbooks in evolutionary psychology have proposed the hypothesis that the fear of spiders is an adaptation shaped by the mortal threat posed by their bites.
Still, when a youth is knifed outside a night club, no cop needs evening classes in evolutionary psychology to realize the folly of rounding up grannies.
It has also been claimed, in an academic journal, that books of tips by pickup artists show how the insights of evolutionary psychology can pay off in real life, or at least in bars.
Michael Price, a professor of evolutionary moral psychology at Brunel University in London, said people are hardwired to defend their kin, like Moore did before she realized her father's guilt.
Most academics, and practically all of them who toil in the fields of psychology and evolutionary biology, lean to the political left.
Dr George Fieldman, principal lecturer in psychology at Buckingham New University, said there could be evolutionary benefits to possessing the 334 variant.
Despite its obvious connection to the psychology of thumos, the fascinating contemporary literature on the evolutionary basis of the status-obsessed mind is AWOL from The Social Animal.
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Omar Sultan Haque, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology at Harvard and Ehab Abouheif, a professor of evolutionary biology at McGill will also be discussing how evolution has been regarded by Muslims since Darwin.
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In a short and sweet post at Psychology Today, Scott James, author of An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics (and a friend of mine from grad school) offers a summary of the contemporary moral nativist view inspired by Noam Chomsky and John Rawls.
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