Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 5-67

  Tooby, John ^a   Cosmides, Leda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive psychology; Computational mechanism; Evolutionary psychology; Motivation; Organic design; Psychological mechanism

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EID: 84987825329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939376.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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