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Title: Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, Second Edition by David M. Buss, David Buss ISBN: 0-205-37071-3 Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $74.40 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
Comment: In "Evolutionary Psychology -- The New Science of Mind," David M. Buss delivers a comprehensive, well-detailed, and illustrative presentation of evolved psychological mechanisms that have become universal across the human species while detailing the biology necessary to understand evolutionary theory and how it applies to human psychology. Organizationally-sound, the textbook reads like a novel, clearly providing theoretical and empirical information requisite for a fundamental understanding of Evolutionary Psychology. Buss' volume is essential reading for students of Evolutionary Psychology and very suitable reading for those of us interested in why we are the way we are. For more advanced readers, "The Adapted Mind," edited by Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby is an ideal choice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Buss has touched all the bases regarding human behavior.
Comment: David Buss has touched all the bases when it comes to explaining human behavior. Written as a textbook, it reads like a mystery novel. The central mystery being: Why do humans behave the way they do? And, can we do anything to change? The primary tenet of psychology is: bringing into awareness the reasons why we act in certain ways, gives us the power to act differently, i.e. to change. Buss argues, using empirical as well as analogous evidence, that we behave as we do because in our ancestral past, specific behaviors prevailed because they solved specific problems; and that these behaviors now come programed in the brain, activated by situational cues. That's the short version, which if you take exception to, read the long version and then let the debate begin. The truly intriguing aspect of this theory is: if it is correct, then perhaps we can stop doing what we have always done and move towards a more peaceful existence in a more non-violent way. This theory, and this book, should become a part of all high school curriculum and let all students debate, study, and test its hypotheses.
Rating: 5
Summary: HUMAN CIVILIZATION FROM THE PRESENT: WHY WE ACT THIS WAY
Comment: Each day for twenty-something years I woke up to see reality as it was presented to me. I noticed many patterns in life that are hard not to notice -- such as the difference between men and women in how they approach sexual opportunities. Men will readily say yes, women firmly no. Why?
Evolution is such an intriguing and elegant theory on its approach to our current behavior. Boss's contention is that the present behaviors we see today in our modern era -- fear of snakes, high male sexual drive -- arose from our ancestors. Those who did not have such characteristics did not become our ancestors. Thus, over time, certain characteristics were more likely to be successful in the mating process, and those are the same characteristics we see today. Boss's insight required a lot of keen intellectual insight into many different hypothesis.
Some of these hypothesis seemed far-fetched at first. Who would think that there would be statistical differences in how maternal grandparents v. paternal grandparents relate to their grandchildren. There are, however. Maternal grandmothers have less risk in investing in a grandchild who is not biologically related since she is confident that her daughter is biologically hers, and she can be certain that her daughter's child is biologically related, too. The hypothesis that paternal grandfathers would be most distant -- since they have the most to lose -- turned out to be true. (Paternal grandfathers cannot be 100% certain that they fathered their son or daughter, and thus, they cannot be sure that that child's son or daughter is biologically related).
This is perhaps one of the most important contributions in scientific literature since Watson and Clark's published report on their findings of DNA.
Michael Gordon
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Title: The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby ISBN: 0195101073 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $48.50 |
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Title: Human Evolutionary Psychology by Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar, John Lycett, R. I. M. Dunbar ISBN: 0691096228 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David M. Buss ISBN: 046500802X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Functional Mind: Readings in Evolutionary Psychology by Douglas T. Kenrick, Carol L. Luce ISBN: 0205344097 Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 17 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.40 |
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Title: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life by Robert Wright ISBN: 0679763996 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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