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Evolutionary Explanations of Behaviour

A topic within Evolutionary & Biological Psychology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Evolutionary Psychology: Controversies, Questions, Prospects, and Limitations

Jaime C. Confer et al.

Answers the most common objections to evolutionary psychology - unfalsifiability, genetic determinism, ignoring culture - and argues the field's methods are no less rigorous than the rest of psychology's, even where its specific hypotheses remain contested.

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The Psychological Foundations of Culture

John Tooby & Leda Cosmides

Argues the mind is not a single general-purpose learning device but a collection of many specialised mechanisms shaped by natural selection for recurrent ancestral problems, and that culture is itself generated and transmitted through those evolved mechanisms.

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