Evolutionary Psychology

Will Reader is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Previously he taught at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, at Cardiff University, at the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales), and The University of York, where he completed his DPhil in 1994.Lance Workman is Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of South Wales in the UK. Previously head of the Psychology Department at Bath Spa University, he received an undergraduate degree in psychology and biology (BA Joint Hons) from Keele University and his doctorate (DPhil) in animal behaviour from the University of Sussex. In 1990 he set up the first undergraduate module in Evolutionary Psychology at a British University.

• CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL SELECTION AND GENETICSCHAPTER 2. SEXUAL SELECTION AND MATE CHOICECHAPTER 3. LIVING WITH OTHERS: EVOLUTION, SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND MORALITYCHAPTER 4. EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENTCHAPTER 5. THINKING AND FEELING: COGNITION AND EMOTIONSCHAPTER 6. WHY DO PEOPLE VARY? INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND MENTAL ILLNESSCHAPTER 7. EVOLUTION, CULTURE AND LANGUAGE