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  • Paperback: 688 pages
  • Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (11 Jan 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0195101073
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195101072
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
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From reviews of the hardback: "A fascinating book which deserves a wide audience." European Medical Journal "a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture." British Journal of Medical Psychology Researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, but it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have been made which have highlighted these changes. This book introduces the newly crystallizing field of evolutionary psychology to a wider scientific audience and focuses on the evolved information-processing mechanisms that comprise the human mind.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Valuable but largely descriptive, 24 Jan 2002
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I have used this book in my (PhD) research. It is comprehensive and descriptive, but sadly posits no mechanisms for the phenomena described. Although this is disappointing, in itself, this book is still valuable to researchers as a stepping stone towards positing mechanisms of their own.

As I obtained my first sighting of this book after an extended library reservation, due to its extreme popularity, I would guess that my opinion of its value is borne out by other academics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A watershed work!, 6 May 1998
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance and uniqueness of this work. It is without question, the most comprehensive, most authoritative, most timely, most compelling, most interdisciplinary book ever written on the topic of evolutionary psychology. Practically all the major exponents of this new science are presented and accounted for (Buss, Symons, Daly & Wilson, Tooby & Cosmides, Barkow and Kaplan). In addition, many qualified and distinguished experts in other fields have made valuable supporting contributions (McGrew, Shepard and Fernald). It already stands as a classic in the field of evolutionary psychology and is destined to be a watershed in the development of psychological thought. However, readers beware: this book is not a light, bedside read. It is dense, scholarly reading. Although enjoyable, it is not appropriate for a lay audience looking for pop-psychology. But if you are a social scientists or serious reader who wishes to know what evolutionary psychology is about, there is simply no other book to read. My only question is when can we look forward to a second volume?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Changed the way I think about human behavior, 20 Mar 1999
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I read this book in my last semester as a psych major. I was extremely dissapointed with all the theories that I had learned relating to human behavior, until I read this book. This book provides explantions for humnan behavior, that in my opnion, are the "real thing". All the ariticles are well written and based on sound, scientific research. It is not easy reading, but it is well worth it. I think that anyone studying or interested in human behavior should read this book.
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