Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology and Psychopathy

✍ Scribed by Janko Međedović

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the study of psychopathy using behavioral ecological framework. It consists of two parts. The first describes the science of human behavioral ecology, including:

• Basic concepts of evolutionary biology

• Evolutionary behavioral sciences

• Evolutionary ecology of family

• Evolutionary tradeoffs

• Life history theory

• Behavioral ecology of personality

• Psychopathy and its current evolution.

The second part of the book describes empirical research on psychopathy in evolutionary ecological context, aiming to explore fertility-longevity tradeoffs in psychopathy, interacting phenotypes in psychopathy, and parental effects associated with psychopathy. This part contains the discussion of the study’s findings which is based on several theoretical concepts described in part one.

This volume is ideal for psychopathy researchers hoping to bridge the natural and social sciences in a new and innovative way.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Prologue: A Personal Reflection on Human Behavioral Ecology
Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Biology
Evolution
Fitness
Evolutionary Tradeoffs
Evolutionary Processes: Mutations, Genetic Drift, Gene Flow, and Natural Selection
The Types of Natural Selection
Sexual Selection
Adaptations
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
The Foundation: Animal Behavior in the Light of Evolutionary Processes
Human Behavioral Ecology: A Brief History
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: A Representative Example of Ethnographic Research in HBE
Do We Still Evolve? Natural Selection in Modern Human Populations
HBE: Critiques, Controversies, and Unresolved Questions
Evolutionary Psychology: The Basic Tenets
Criticisms of EP
EP and HBE: Opposed or Complementary Disciplines? Could Both Be Possible?
Evolutionary Ecology of Family
Parental Investment: Sexual Selection Strikes Again
Parental Care in Humans
Grandparental Investment
Parental–Offspring Interactions
Reproductive Motivations and Intentions
Understanding Demographic Transition
Evolutionary Tradeoffs in Humans
Fertility-Longevity Tradeoff
The Tradeoff Involved with the Age of First Reproduction (AFR)
Quantity-Quality Tradeoff
Mating-Parenting Tradeoff
Life History Theory
The Basic Tenets of Life History Theory (LHT)
LHT in Evolutionary Psychology and Its Critiques
Covariation Between Life History Traits
Environmental Context and the Life History Traits
Network Approach to Life History
LHT Criticisms, Debates, and Open Questions
Behavioral Ecology of Personality
Evolution of Animal Personalities
Human Personality Ecology: The Associations Between Personality Traits and Fitness
Explaining Three Evolutionary Puzzles of Personality in Humans
Human Personality Ecology: The Extensions
Psychopathy and Its Current Evolution
Psychopathy: Definition and Measurement
Nomological Network of Psychopathy in Brief
Genetic, Neurobiological, and Environmental Precursors of Psychopathy
Psychopathy in an Evolutionary Context
The Links Between Psychopathy and Fertility
The Answers on the First Evolutionary Puzzle of Psychopathy
The Empirical Study: Psychopathy, Fertility, Longevity, Interacting Phenotypes, and Parental Effects
Goals of the Present Study
Sample
Measures
The Plan of Data Analysis
Results: Analyzing the Links Between Psychopathy and Fitness
Results: Analyzing Interacting Phenotypes
Results: Analyzing Parental Effects
Discussion
Epilogue: Another Personal Reflection on Human Behavioral Ecology
References
Index