A_companion_website_is_available_for_this_textIt is refreshing in the wake of the sometimes uncritical enthusiasm forevolutionary psychology to read a thoughtfu... » 

A_companion_website_is_available_for_this_textIt is refreshing in the wake of the sometimes uncritical enthusiasm forevolutionary psychology to read a thoughtful and balanced account of theproblems as well as the benefits of an evolutionary perspective on humanbehaviour Professor Anne Campbell Durham UniversityEssential Evolutionary Psychology introduces students to the core theoriesapproaches and findings that are the necessary foundations for developing anunderstanding of the evolutionary psychology.It offers a sound brief and student friendly explication of how evolutionarytheory has been and is applied in psychology. The book unpicks the very essenceof human evolution and how this knowledge is used to give evolutionaryaccounts of four of the central pillars of human behaviour cooperationattraction aggression and family formation. It also covers evolutionaryaccounts of abnormal behaviour language and culture. «