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" FI: This union of the computational model of the mind and contemporary evolutionary theory is often called "evolutionary psychology." In your view, what exactly is evolutionary psychology committed to, both methodologically and substantively?"

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

" Ever since sociobiology was introduced, critics such as the the late Stephen Jay Gould and evolutionary biologist Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University have pointed out that the basic reasoning of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology relies on mistaken evolutionary thinking."

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Gordon, Deborah M. "Dad's not lost: but his steadfast refusal to ask for directions--despite the jokes--need not be explained as an evolutionary trait of the human male" Natural History 113.6 July 1 2004: 52-56

" In Leda Cosmides and John Tooby's Evolutionary Psychology: a primer, we learn that our neural circuits were designed by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during the evolutionary history of our species."

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Sardar, Ziauddin. "Our fetish for fake smells" New Statesman (1996) 129.4503 Sept. 11 2000: 25

" Evolutionary psychology, which uses contemporary evolutionary theory as "a conceptual framework or metatheory for the study of psychological processes and mechanisms" (Daly 1990: 25), has begun to show that while individual human behaviors..."

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

" 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."

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

" Following these evolutionary pressures, evolutionary psychologists have predicted differences in the arousal of men's and women's jealous reactions such that men are believed..."

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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

" If childhood-oriented anthropologists reject such an evolutionary framework, they will continue to lose evolutionary ground to psychologists, who generally lack their ethnological sophistication."

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PARKER, SUE TAYLOR. "STRANGERS ON A TRAIN OF UNCERTAIN DESTINATION" BioScience 50.5 May 1 2000: 462

" The final section sets forth two competing evolutionary conceptualizations of human nature--"evolutionary psychology" and "immanent Darwinism"--and discusses their bearing on our evolutionary past, our behavior, how societies are organized, and the relations between science and religion."

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Burkhardt, Richard W. Jr. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Historian 62.3 Mar. 22 2000: 707

" 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."

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

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" 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)."

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

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" Evolutionary psychology and explanation in personality psychology."

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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

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"... 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..."

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

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" The latest, Darwinian phase is most characteristically expressed by the discipline of evolutionary psychology (EP), which insists that, because we are animals, our behaviour can be understood only as the result of evolution by natural selection."

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APPLEYARD, BRYAN. "Darwin wars" New Statesman (1996) 129.4499 Aug. 14 2000: 43

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

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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

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" Lovers who insist on sexual displays in public give the lie to evolutionary psychology's dictum that in every known human culture sexual intimates seek privacy."

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CALLAHAN, SIDNEY. "TURN OFF THAT CELL PHONE! Bare your soul in private" Commonweal 77.12 June 16 2000: 7

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"... at the prospect of marrying a rich man elicited a good deal of commentary, mostly from feminists, who shook their heads in disgust, and evolutionary psychologists, who said..."

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HYMOWITZ, KAY S. "Love among the ruins" Public Interest June 22 2000: 108

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" Sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists often dismiss their critics as anti-materialists."

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Malik, Kenan. "The gene genie" New Statesman (1996) 129.4493 July 3 2000: 53