Foreword - Nancy L. Segal
Preface
1. Evolutionary Theory and Human Development - Robert L.
Burgess
2. Theoretical Issues in the Study of Evolution and Development -
Kevin MacDonald and Scott L. Hershberger
3. Culture and Developmental Plasticity: Evolution of the Social
Brain - Mark V. Flinn
4. Evolution and Cognitive Development - David C. Geary
5. Contextual Freedom in Human Infant Vocalization and the
Evolution of Language - D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel
6. On Why It Takes a Village: Cooperative Breeders, Infant Needs,
and the Future - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
7. Human Emotions as Multipurpose Adaptations: An Evolutionary
Perspective on the Development of Fear - Peter LaFreniere
8. Personality, Evolution, and Development - Kevin MacDonald
9. An Evolutionary Reconceptualization of Kohlberg′s Model of Moral
Development - Dennis Krebs
10. Evolutionary Studies of Cooperation, Competition, and Altruism:
A Twin-Based Approach - Nancy L. Segal
11. An Analysis of Child Maltreatment: From Behavioral Psychology
to Behavioral Ecology - Robert L. Burgess and Alicia A.
Drais-Parrillo
12. Further Observations on Adolescence - Glenn E. Weisfeld and
Donyell K. Coleman
13. Amish and Gypsy Children: Socialization Within Cohesive,
Strategizing Groups - William R. Charlesworth
14. Evolutionary Psychopathology and Abnormal Development - Linda
Mealey
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Robert Lee Burgess (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis,
1969) is Professor of Human Development at the Pennsylvania State
University. He has degrees in anthropology, psychology, and
sociology. He has published numerous articles in journals and
chapters in books dealing with such topics as theory construction,
the development of criminal behavior and illicit drug use,
cooperation and competition in children′s groups, the development
and consequences of power differences in dyads involved in exchange
relationships, and the role of imitation in retarded
children. He is also co-author (with Don Bushell, Jr.) of
Behavioral Sociology: The Experimental Analysis of Social Process
and (with Ted L. Huston) of Social Exchange in Developing
Relationships. Drawing upon research methods developed by
primatologists, he conducted one of the first observational studies
of abusive and neglectful families in their own homes.
Recently, he has published articles examining the convergence of
evolutionary biology and behavior genetics for understanding human
development.
Kevin MacDonald is Professor of Psychology at California State
University Long Beach. After receiving a Masters degree in
evolutionary biology, he received a Ph. D. in Biobehavioral
Sciences, both at the University of Connecticut. Since
assuming his position at California State University Long Beach,
his research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives on
culture, developmental psychology and personality theory, the
origins and maintenance of monogamous marriage in Western Europe,
and ethnic relations (group evolutionary strategies).
He is the author of Social and Personality Development: An
Evolutionary Synthesis (1988), A People That Shall Dwell Alone:
Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (1994), Separation and Its
Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (1998),
and The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish
Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political
Movements (1998). He has also edited three books, Sociobiological
Perspectives on Human Development (1988), Parent-Child Play:
Descriptions and Implications (1994), and Evolutionary Perspectives
on Human Development (2004).
"In this volume, Burgess and MacDonald have brought together a
distinguished group of psychologists and anthropologists to
investigate how-given our evolutionary heritage, genetic make-up
and salient environment-behavior, cognition, and emotion unfold
from the human organism. They make clear that both evolutionary
functional and proximate behavioral perspectives are essential to
understanding the human mind and its products. Many of these essays
should be required reading for sociobiologists, evolutionary
psychologists, and evolutionary anthropologists and their ilk."
*Jeffrey Kurland*
"It′s clear that evolutionary biology has a tremendous amount to
offer when it comes to our understanding of human development, and
yet, many experts in developmental psychology have remained
impervious to these insights. At last, this may change: Burgess and
MacDonald have compiled a rich array of theory and data, much of it
contributed by the leading lights of evolutionary psychology (or,
if you prefer, sociobiology). A very valuable collection and one
that might help define a new and important field."
*David P. Barash*
"This new edition of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development
is obligatory reading for anyone interested in the integration of
evolutionary theory into developmental psychology. Its basic
approach is not to reject and replace the earlier pre-evolutionary
work of developmental and other psychologists but to combine the
fruits of earlier work with the new insights from our rapidly
growing understanding of how evolution has shaped all life forms
especially human beings. It provides a valuable corrective to
recent narrow approaches which argue that the human mind is
constructed exclusively of domain-specific mechanism and which
deemphasize the importance of human psychological and behavioral
plasticity. The book presents a view of the human mind as
consisting of both domain-specific and domain-general mechanisms
and points to the importance of plasticity and intelligence in the
unique way in which the brainiest of large-brained animals has
adapted to its environment. The topics covered are broad ranging,
including, among others, child and adolescent development, the
development of cognition, language, morality, personality,
emotional development, resource acquisition during ontogeny, and
the role of kinship in shaping cooperation and competition. As it
must, it also explores the dark-side of human development: the
development of psychopathology and the maltreatment of children.
Anyone who reads this book will come away with a richer
understanding of our shared human nature."
*Bill Irons*
"I feel that evolutionary psychology is a growing force, and it
will come to dominate thinking in psychology. . . such a book now
is timely."
*Jon H. Kaas*
"The contributors are, as a group, a most impressive lot. . . . On
the whole, there appears to be enough new material in the proposed
book to cause an evolutionary developmental psychologist to adopt
it as a supplementary book of readings. Too, I suspect that
individuals such as myself, who are not developmental
psychologists, would be inclined to buy it and read it."
*E.J. Capaldi*
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