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1. " 544 pp. $27.50 Robert Wright's previous book, The Moral Animal (1994), presented a highly readable overview of evolutionary psychology, the controversial attempt to apply the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind."

Source:   Fukuyama, Francis. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Wilson Quarterly 24.1 Jan. 1 2000: 103 Google This

2. " Researchers in molecular and developmental biology, physiology, ecology, animal behavior, psychology, anthropology, and other disciplines continue to adopt the methods, principles, and concepts of evolutionary biology as a framework."

Source:   . "RELEVANCE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO THE NATIONAL RESEARCH AGENDA" BioScience 49.11 Nov. 1 1999: 1 Google This

3. " This article, drawing on evidence from evolutionary biology, ethology, developmental psychobiology, and psychology, takes a somewhat different approach from that of the authors mentioned above."

Source:   FOSTER, CAROLINE. "The Limits to Low Fertility: A Biosocial Approach" Population and Development Review 26.2 June 1 2000: 209 Google This

4. " It is clear that, if we are to understand the evolution of human cognition, we must incorporate ideas from disciplines which are rarely consulted, like neural biology and evolutionary psychology."

Source:   Simek, Jan F. "Human Evolution, Language and Mind: A Psychological andArchaeological Inquiry" Antiquity v72.n276 June 1 1998: 444-448 Google This

5. " Economist Robert H. Frank has written a stimulating book that integrates research from psychology, evolutionary biology, and economics to address the raging "luxury fever" that is needlessly consuming precious resources in "overdeveloped" economies."

Source:   COSTANZA, ROBERT. "Smart for one, dumb for all" BioScience 50.3 Mar. 1 2000: 259 Google This

6. "... that is, why natural selection gave rise to it. Minimally evolutionary psychology is simply committed to that program; it is simply a way of linking psychology to other sciences, in this case, evolutionary biology."

Source:   . "Mind, Morality, and Evolution" Free Inquiry 20.2 Mar. 22 2000: 55 Google This

7. " Evolutionary biology and for that matter evolutionary psychology are blessed by a large number of good writers for the public (e.g., Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith, E. O. Wilson, Steve Pinker, and Geoffrey Miller to name only a few)."

Source:   Klusmann, Dietrich. "Promiscuity: A Natural History of Sperm Competition and Female Choice" Archives of Sexual Behavior 33.6 Dec. 1 2004: 609-612 Google This

8. " U.S. scientists are in the very forefront of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, yet there is little acceptance of their findings here at home."

Source:   Ericson, Edward L. "Reclaiming the High Ground" Humanist 60.5 Sept. 1 2000: 30 Google This

9. " This impression seems to be widespread among people lacking background in evolutionary biology, but in fact psychological egoism (i.e., egoistic "motives") is..."

Source:   Mysterud, Iver. "Environmental Problems and Human Behavior" BioScience v48.n10 Oct. 1 1998: 858-862 Google This

10. " The study of how change works is spread through so many disciplines: molecular biology, evolutionary theory, ecological theory, chaos theory, complex adaptive systems theory, control theory, pedagogy, epistemology, organizational development, psychology, family therapy, philosophy, anthropology, even the martial arts."

Source:   Flower, Joe. "Just row." Physician Executive 25.2 Mar. 1 1999: 62-65 Google This

11. " To illustrate this and other problems, the following four prominent, positive psychological models will be examined through the logic of the three principles: Csikszentmihalyi's (1990, 1999) flow, Seligman's (1991, 1998) learned optimism, Goleman's (1992) emotional intelligence, and Buss's (1999, 2000) evolutionary psychology."

Source:   Kelley, Thomas M. "Positive psychology and adolescent mental health: false promise or true breakthrough?" Adolescence 39.154 June 22 2004: 257-279 Google This

12. " Jared Diamond, University of California at Los Angeles, for seminal research in applying Darwinian evolutionary approaches to the disparate fields of physiology, ecology, conservation biology and human history, and for outstanding efforts in communicating science."

Source:   . "Nine Sigma Xi Members Receive Science and Technology Medals" American Scientist 88.3 May 1 2000: 288 Google This

13. "... In summary: a designer who requires the long process described by modern cosmology and evolutionary biology in order to produce life in general and human life in particular is limited in either knowledge or power, if not in both."

Source:   MYERS, DAVID B. "New design arguments: old Millian objections" Religious Studies 36.2 June 1 2000: 141 Google This

14. "... that happens to mirror--but not by pure accident--the topology of evolutionary systems, even though Linnaeus himself interpreted his organizing principle in creationist terms. (As for the fascinating, and largely psychological, question of whether Linnaeus devised a system compatible..."

Source:   Gould, Stephen Jay. "Linnaeus's Luck?" Natural History 109.7 Sept. 1 2000: 18 Google This

15. " Field studies of three-spined stickleback fish dash a textbook example of an evolutionary principle, claims an evolutionary biology team."

Source:   S.M. "Fading to black doesn't empower fish" Science News 157.14 Apr. 1 2000: 219 Google This

16. " In The adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (eds) J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby, 19-136."

Source:   BOYER, PASCAL. "FUNCTIONAL ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS: ONTOLOGICAL AND STRATEGIC SELECTION IN EVOLVED MINDS [*]" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.2 June 1 2000: 195 Google This

17. " Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain all of the features and functions of the mind as results of natural selection for reproductive fitness that culminated in hunters and gatherers."

Source:   Haught, John F. "Can we understand understanding?" Commonweal 127.6 Mar. 24 2000: 22 Google This

18. " It is possible, of course, that one might arrive at liberal instit utions and principles via some other route, such as an evolutionary biology or divine edict."

Source:   APPERLE, ALAN. "Liberalism, Autonomy and Stability" British Journal of Political Science 30.2 Apr. 1 2000: 291 Google This

19. " Symposium participants will receive practical illustrations of the importance of evolutionary biology to our daily lives, and teachers will leave with information and materials that will help them teach the principles of evolutionary biology."

Source:   Gropp, Robert E. "More education for evolution teachers" BioScience 54.9 Sept. 1 2004: 803-804 Google This

20. " In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19-136)."

Source:   Nannini, Dawn K.,Meyers, Lawrence S. "Jealousy in Sexual and Emotional Infidelity: An Alternative to the Evolutionary Explanation" Journal of Sex Research 37.2 May 1 2000: 117 Google This

21. " Furthermore, in the form of evolutionary psychology, Darwinism raises the paradoxical problem that knowledge might actually make us less fit for survival."

Source:   Appleyard, Bryan. "Mind games" New Statesman (1996) 133.4685 Apr. 26 2004: 53-55 Google This

22. " Evolutionary ecologists also look at behavior and biology as adaptive in local conditions and make greater use of life history theory; researchers working in human adaptability could surely profit from this."

Source:   WILEY, ANDREW S. "Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future" Human Biology 71.2 Apr. 1 1999: 306 Google This

23. " With the availability of genome-scale data from several individual humans, from chimpanzees, and soon from other great apes, studies of human population biology and evolutionary history now have a richness of data that was previously unimaginable (Clark et al. 2003)."

Source:   Delwiche, Charles F. "The genomic palimpsest: genomics in evolution and ecology" BioScience 54.11 Nov. 1 2004: 991-1002 Google This

24. " As noted earlier, our evolutionary history has provided us with no inhibitions against destroying our habitats, other species or other human beings, and no such inhibitions will come to us from our biology."

Source:   Rees, William E. "Is humanity fatally successful?" Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis 30-31 Jan. 1 2002: 67-101 Google This

25. " Those studying behavioral systems still examine the basic instincts that humans appear to possess (Diamond, 2001; Killeen, 2001), as do evolutionary psychologists (Cervone, 2000; Rode & Wang, 2000; Rozin, 2000) and some sociobiologists (Wilson, 1975)."

Source:   Humphreys, John H.,Einstein, Walter O. "Leadership and temperament congruence: extending the expectancy model of work motivation" Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 10.4 Mar. 22 2004: 58-80 Google This

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