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Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History traces the history of evolutionary thought in psychology in an accessible and lively fashion and examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.
- First book to trace the history of evolutionary thinking in psychology from its beginnings to the present day in an accessible and lively fashion.
- Focuses on the rise of evolutionary theories begun by Lamarck and Darwin and the creation of the science of psychology.
- Explains evolutionary thought's banishment by behaviorism and cultural anthropology in the early 20th century, along with its eventual re-emergence through ethology and sociobiology.
- Examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 CURIOUS HISTORIES
- CHAPTER 2 BEFORE DARWIN
- CHAPTER 3 PSYCHOLOGY BORN AND THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER 4 THE NEAR DEATH OF DARWINISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- CHAPTER 5 AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE
- CHAPTER 6 LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: ETHOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
- CHAPTER 7 CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
- CHAPTER 8 FUTURE PROSPECTS
- References
- Index