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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. " 12 Our laboratory's empirical research of chimpanzees' understanding of 'seeing' has been summarized in my article, "The Minds of Humans and Apes are Different Outcomes of an Evolutionary Experiment," in Susan M. Fitzpatrick..."

Source:   Povinelli, Daniel John. "Behind the ape's appearance: escaping anthropocentrism in the study of other minds" Daedalus 133.1 Jan. 1 2004: 29-42 Google This

3. "... do this we must recognise that there is such a thing as human nature, explore what this implies and discover the circumstances that will bring out the best in us. Evolutionary and genetic theory..."

Source:   Tudge, Colin. "A plague on both their houses" New Statesman (1996) 4456.128 Sept. 27 1999: 67 Google This

4. " The two encompassing goals of evolutionary biology are to discover the history of life on earth and to understand the causal processes of evolution."

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

5. " 292 pp. Harvard University Press, 1999. $39.95. Understanding the roles that cooperation and conflict play in shaping the political dynamics of human societies has fascinated and perplexed anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists and behavioral ecologists for quite some time."

Source:   Earley, Ryan. "Balance of Power" American Scientist 88.2 Mar. 1 2000: 182 Google This

6. " There is increasing scientific evidence that evolutionary processes have produced sexes with distinct physiological and psychological traits, traits that might be especially relevant to any student of human behavior wishing to better understand patterns of work, marriage, and reproduction."

Source:   HODGSON, DENNIS. "The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They AreChanging the World" Population and Development Review 25.4 Dec. 1 1999: 791 Google This

7. " 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

8. " Recently, Professor Pinker has become an outspoken defender of the controversial new research tradition known as "evolutionary psychology," which sees the mind as an assembly of many functionally specialized parts--often called "modules" or "Darwinian algorithms"--that were shaped by natural selection among our ancestors."

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

9. " This collection enables scientists to study the evolutionary history, reproductive biology, and even diet of frogs and their relatives: discover their benefits to society; and develop analyses necessary for making conservation decisions."

Source:  . "Frogs: A Chorus of Colors: this is "a fascinating and fun exhibition that explores the incredible diversity of this important group of amphibians which has been roaming the Earth for more than 200,000,000 years, at least as long as the dinosaurs.".(Focus" USA Today (Magazine) 133.2714 Nov. 1 2004: 44-51

10. " 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

11. " 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

12. " In The adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of cultures (eds) J. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby."

Source:   RUNCIMAN, W.G. "Manipulation of metaphors" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5.4 Dec. 1 1999: 629 Google This

13. " 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

14. " 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

15. " Our current stupidity is the conviction that neo-Darwinian evolutionary psychology tells us all we need to know about being human."

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

16. " 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."

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

17. " The landscape is its record....[The] other history is not evolutionary, [but] consists of a set of separate works of art that rise out of wholeness with powerful messages for the mind....[T]he person who is in place, located," Glassie concludes, "understands two histories."

Source:   RYDEN, KENT C. "WRITING THE MIDWEST: HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND REGIONAL IDENTITY" Geographical Review 89.4 Oct. 1 1999: 511 Google This

18. " The author includes scholarly research from the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, medicine, music, linguistics, and visual arts to bring together theories and questions that will drive and nourish the continued search for understanding the human mind and humaneness."

Source:   . "The Arts and Critical Thinking in American Education" Adolescence 35.137 Mar. 22 2000: 234 Google This

19. "... "battle of the sexes." The first goal of the book is to bring together leaders of each perspective and begin a discourse between feminism and evolutionary psychology."

Source:   Gold, Steven R. "Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and FeministPerspectives" Archives of Sexual Behavior 28.5 Oct. 1 1999: 390 Google This

20. " That is the most important thing in evolutionary history, to discover such parallelisms."

Source:   STOIANOVA, IVANKA. "AND DASEIN BECOMES MUSIC: SOME GLIMPSES OF LIGHT" Perspectives of New Music 37.1 Jan. 1 1999: 179 Google This

21. " R., in turn, borrows heavily from these American pragmatists yet finds them not radical enough to discover the non-evolutionary elements in the hypotheses generating their pragmatism."

Source:   . "SHORTER NOTICES" Theological Studies 60.3 Sept. 1 1999: 575 Google This

22. " These include that Sweezy's writings (a) have a "profoundly evolutionary content" and "vision," (b) influenced the "direction of research among more institutionally minded industrial organization analysts," (c) developed "a path breaking class-institutional analysis of fascism," (d) "helped..."

Source:   O'Hara, Phillip Anthony,Sherman, Howard Jay. "Veblen and Sweezy on monopoly capital, crises, conflict, and the state" Journal of Economic Issues 38.4 Dec. 1 2004: 969-988 Google This

23. " It suggests as well a dreaded essentialism--that human life might have some inherent value--about which not enough bad things can be said by anti-speciesists, evolutionary biologists, and some single-minded philosophers."

Source:   Callahan, Daniel. "The Social Sciences and the Task of Bioethics" Daedalus 128.4 Sept. 22 1999: 275 Google This

24. " On the other side are the evolutionary psychologists who see human psychology as a set of "'complex adaptations,' specific traits exquisitely..."

Source:   . "Short Takes" Tikkun 15.1 Jan. 1 2000: 86

25. " Evolutionary biology and human behavior Demography, like other social sciences, is slowly coming to terms with two important truths that the biological sciences have proved beyond any doubt: first, that the human mind is as much a..."

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

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