Evolutionary psychology: The wheat and the chaff

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 187-191

  De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biology; Evolution; Modularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036920581     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00197     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Daly, M., & Wilson, M. (1988). Homicide. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
2. de Waal, F.B.M. (1996). Good natured: The origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
3. de Waal, F.B.M. (1998). Chimpanzee politics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Original work published 1982).
4. de Waal, F.B.M. (2000, April 2). Survival of the rapist [Review of the book A natural history of rape: Biological bases of sexual coercion]. New York Times Book Review, pp. 24-25.
5. Dobzhansky, T. (1973). Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. American Biology Teacher, 35, 125-129.
6. Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M.J. (1997). Becoming a "Greeble" expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition. Vision Research, 37, 1673-1682.
7. McDougall, W. (1908). An introduction to social psychology. New York: Putnam.
8. Muscarella, F., & Cunningham, M.R. (1996). The evolutionary significance and social perception of male pattern baldness and facial hair. Ethology & Sociobiology, 17, 99-117.
9. Panksepp, J., & Panksepp, J.B. (2000). The seven sins of evolutionary psychology. Evolution and Cognition, 6, 108-131.
10. Staats, A.W. (1991). Unified positivism and unification psychology: Fad or new field? American Psychologist, 46, 899-912.
11. Thornhill, R., & Palmer, C.T. (2000). A natural history of rape: Biological bases of sexual coercion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
12. Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19-136). New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Williams, G. (1966). Adaptation and natural selection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
14. Wilson, E.O. (1998). Consilience: The unity of knowledge. New York: Knopf.