Psychology · Evolutionary & Biological Psychology
Kin Selection & Altruism
A topic within Evolutionary & Biological Psychology, itself one of 7 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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- BookThe Adapted MindBarkow, Cosmides & Tooby, 1992
The founding statement of evolutionary psychology — that the mind is a set of evolved special-purpose mechanisms. Contested ever since.