When I® rst encountered the term``evolutionary psychology,''I thought it referred to the study
of how mind and behavior have evolved. But I was mistaken. In the last decade, evolutionary …

Some researchers define “evolutionary psychology” as simply “the evolutionary study of
mind and behavior”(Caporael 2001, p. 608). So conceived, evolutionary psychology is a …

What is evolutionary psychology? The answer to this question is complicated by the fact that
the term “evolutionary psychology” is commonly used in two distinct senses. In one sense …

Evolutionary psychology has been dominated by one particular method for studying the
mind and behavior. This is the first book to both question that monopoly and suggest a broad …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

As the astute reader of our paper hopefully noticed, our overall goal was to help guide
evolutionary psychology toward a more productive conceptual and experimental path than …

Ketelaar and Ellis (this issue) defended the evolutionary psychology perspective against the
criticism that it is scientifically unfalsifiable. They argued that, as for other scientific …

The theory of evolution by natural selection has implications for understanding the design of
the human mind, and Darwin himself was the first to see this. During the 20th century, many …

The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of
the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which …

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in
ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural …