"A scientific analysis of agency in the real world-which animal types have it and which don't-written by the top researcher in the field"--
"In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologi…
Questioning how the human mind influences the content and organisation of culture, these essays pitches the arguments for nativism (proposed by evolutionary psychologists) against ethnographic perspectives.
The chapters are peer reviewed articles, also published as part of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality. Chapters include The Evolution of Sexual Pleasure, How Ecology, Genes, Fertility and Fashion Influence Mating Strategies, Sexual Strategies Across Sexual Orientation…
Handbook of the evolution of human sexuality
Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us human. She takes us on a…