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The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. With contributions from over fifty experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. In addition to well studied areas of investigation, such as mate choice and reproduction, the volume also includes chapters on the philosophical underpinnings of evolutionary psychology, comparative perspectives from other species, recent neurobiological findings, and gets to grips with the issue of cultural evolution in relation to human psychology. All the chapters combine a solid review of the relevant literature with well reasoned arguments and robust discussions of the major findings, as well as original insights and suggestions for future work. All the chapters are written by active researchers in the field of evolutionary psychology and so, as might be expected, a wide diversity of opinions is presented. The critical, wide-ranging and diverse discussions are thought-provoking and, taken together, the handbook as a whole provides a well balanced assessment of current research, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.In addition, the editors provide an initial chapter and section introductions that place the contributions in context and help guide the reader by highlighting the major themes raised by the contributors. While each chapter thus stands on its own, and the book can be used as a work of reference, the integration of themes across chapters and sections means it can also be read in its entirety as a complement to textbooks and other publications in the field. The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is the definitive text on this burgeoning field.

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SECTION I: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
1. Evolutionary pyschology in the round
2. The power of culture
3. Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective
4. Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology
5. Group level evolutionary processes
SECTION II: THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH
6. Homologizing the mind
7. Social knowledge in primates
8. Social cognition in non-primates
9. Culture in primates and other animals
10. Empathy, sympathy and prosocial preferences in primates
SECTION III: EVOLUTIONARY NEUROBIOLOGY AND COGNITION
11. Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system
12. The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain
13. Neural pathways of social cognition
14. Mirror neurons and social cognition
15. Mechanisms of ecological rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart
SECTION IV: DEVELOPMENT
16. The evolution of empathizing and systematizing: assortative mating of two strong systematizers and the cause of autism
17. The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation
18. Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies
19. Parental impacts on development: how proximate factors mediate adaptive plans
20. Evolution of stress response to social threat
21. Birth order and sibling competition
SECTION V: MATING, REPRODUCTION & LIFE HISTORY
22. Body odours and odour preferences in humans
23. Reproductive strategies and tactics
24. Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection
25. Sex differences in aggression
26. Evolutionary ecology of family size
27. Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans
28. Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies
29. Risk and decision-making
SECTION VI: THE SELF AND THE SOCIAL WORLD
30. Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems
31. Kinship and descent
32. Individual differences
33. Human evolution and social cognition
34. Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective
35. Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies
36. Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups
37. Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruisms
SECTION VII: CULTURAL EVOLUTION
38. Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution
39. Modelling cultural evolution
40. Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution
41. Memes
42. Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans
43. Evolution of religion
44. Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama
45. Music and cognitive evolution
46. The evolution of language

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