The Second Law of Thermodynamics Is the First Law of Psychology: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology and the Theory of Tandem, Coordinated Inheritances: Comment on Lickliter and Honeycutt (2003)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 858-865

  Tooby, John ^a   Cosmides, Leda ^a   Barrett, H Clark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0242406928     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.858     Document Type: Review

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