Evolutionary Psychology: History and Current Status

In Jessica Pfeifer & Sahotra Sarkar (eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 263--268 (2006)
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The development of evolutionary approaches to psychology from Classical Ethology through Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology is outlined and the main tenets of today's Evolutionary Psychology briefly examined: the heuristic value of evolutionary thinking for psychology, the massive modularity thesis and the monomorphic mind thesis.

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Evolutionary Psychology.Stephen M. Downes - 2016 - In Lee C. McIntyre & Alexander Rosenberg (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science. New York: Routledge. pp. 330-339.
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Ethological models and the concept of 'drive'.R. A. Hinde - 1956 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 6 (24):321-331.
Human ethology: Empirical wealth, theoretical dearth.Jerome H. Barkow - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):27-27.

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