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✍ Michael J. Root 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 249 KB

One of the most remarkable developments in psychology in the last decade has certainly been the efflorescence of popular evolutionary psychology. From Robert Wright to Matt Ridley, from David Buss to David Barash, the number of books purporting to show that humans possess a genetically based, natura