Evolutionary Thought in Psychology

A Brief History

Henry Plotkin

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9781405113786
  9781405113779
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780470775400
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

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.

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