Foundations of evolutionary psychology

摘要

Part I provides the biology of the system; Part II, the bridge between evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology; Part III, the evolution of mental mechanisms; Part IV, the evolution of sex differences; Part V, the evolution of prosocial behavior; Part VI, the evolution of antisocial behavior and psychopathology; and Part VII, a single chapter, on the evolution of religion. Gintis, Bowles, Boyd, and Fehr turn away from long-held assumptions that social behavior is due to either kin selection, in which prosocial behavior benefits close kin despite disadvantages to the giver, or to reciprocal altruism, in which return favors are expected.