Alas, poor Darwin: arguments against evolutionary psychology

✍ Scribed by Rose, Hilary;Rose, Steven Peter Russell

Publisher: Random House;Vintage Digital
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Genes and the religious impulse in evolutionary psychology -- Anti-Dawkins -- Why Memes? -- More things in heaven and earth -- Colonising the social sciences? -- Sewing up the mind : the claims of evolutionary psychology -- Why babies' brains are not Swiss army knives -- Taking the stink out of instinct -- Beyond difference : feminism and evolutionary psychology -- Different strokes : beyond biological determinism and social constructionism -- Social causes and natural relations -- Evolving skills -- Escaping evolutionary psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Genes and the religious impulse in evolutionary psychology --
Anti-Dawkins --
Why Memes? --
More things in heaven and earth --
Colonising the social sciences? --
Sewing up the mind : the claims of evolutionary psychology --
Why babies' brains are not Swiss army knives --
Taking the stink out of instinct --
Beyond difference : feminism and evolutionary psychology --
Different strokes : beyond biological determinism and social constructionism --
Social causes and natural relations --
Evolving skills --
Escaping evolutionary psychology.

✦ Subjects

Biological Evolution;Darwinisme;Evolutionary psychology;Genetic psychology;Genetics, Behavioral;Memen;Psychology

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