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The purpose of this page is to develop an outline for the evolutionary psychology article. It has 2 sections:

  1. The outline table of contents section in the text, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David Buss.
  2. A modified version of that table of contents to serve as an outline for the evolutionary psychology article

Original Table of Contents

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The following outline was taken verbatim from the table of contents section in the text, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David Buss:

  1. Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
    1. The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology
      1. Landmarks in the History of Evolutionary Thinking
        1. Evolution before Darwin
        2. Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection
        3. Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection
        4. The Role of Natural and Sexual Selection in Evolutionary Theory
        5. The Modern Synthesis: Genes and Particulate Inheritance
        6. The Ethology Movement
        7. The Inclusive fitness Revolution
        8. Clarifying Adaptation and Natural Selection
        9. Trivers's Seminal Theories
        10. The Sociobiology Controversy
      2. Common Misunderstandings about Evolutionary Theory
        1. Misunderstanding 1: Human Behavior is Genetically Determined
        2. Misunderstanding 2: If It's Evolutionary, We Can't Change It
        3. Misunderstanding 3: Current Mechanisms are Optimally Designed
      3. Milestones in the Origins of Modern Humans
        1. Out of Africa versus Multiregional Origins: The Origins of Modern Humans
      4. Landmarks in the Field of Psychology
        1. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory
        2. William James and the Psychology of Instincts
        3. The Rise of Behaviorism
        4. The Astonishing Discoveries of Cultural Variability
        5. The Garcia Effect, Prepared Fears, and the Decline of Radical Behaviorism
        6. Peering into the Black Box: The Cognitive Revolution
    2. The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
      1. The Origins of Human Nature
      2. The Core of Human Nature: Fundamentals of Evolved Psychological Mechanisms
      3. Methods for Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses
      4. Sources of Data for Testing Evolutionary
      5. Identifying Adaptive Problems
  2. Problems of Survival
    1. Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature: Human Survival Problems
      1. Food aquisition and Selection
      2. Finding a Place to Live: Shelter and Landscape Preferences
      3. Combating Predators and Other Environmental Dangers: Fears, Phobias, Anxieties, and "Evolutionary Memories"
      4. Are Humans Programmed to Die?
  3. Challenges of Sex and Mating
    1. Women's Long-Term Mating Strategies
      1. Theoretical Background for Evolution of Mate Preferences
      2. The Content of Women's Mate Preferences
      3. Context Effects on Women's Mate Preferences
      4. How Women's Mate Preferences Affect Actual Mating Behavior
    2. Men's Long-Term Mating Strategies
      1. Theoretical Background for the Evolution of Men's Mate Preferences
      2. The Content of Men's Mate Preferences
      3. Context Effects on Men's Mating Behavior
      4. Effect of Men's Preferences on Actual Mating Behavior
    3. Short-Term Sexual Strategies
      1. Theories of Men's Short-Term Mating
      2. Evidence for an Evolved Short-Term Mating Psychology
      3. Women's Short-Term Mating
      4. Context Effects on Short-Term Mating
  4. Challenges of Parenting and Kinship
    1. Problems of Parenting
      1. Why Do Mothers Provide More Paternal Care Than Fathers?
      2. An Evolutionary Perspective on Parental Care
      3. The Theory of Parent-Offspring Conflict
    2. Problems of Kinship
      1. Theory and Implications of Inclusive Fitness
      2. Empirical Findings that Support the Implications of Inclusive Fitness Theory
  5. Problems of Group Living
    1. Cooperative Alliances
      1. The Evolution of Cooperation
      2. Examples of Cooperation in Nature
    2. Aggression and Warfare
      1. Aggression as a Solution to Adaptive Problems
      2. Why Are Men More Violently Aggressive Than Women
      3. Empirical Evidence for Distinct Adaptive Patterns of Aggression
    3. Conflict between the Sexes
      1. Strategic Interference Theory
      2. Conflict about the Occurence and Timing of Sex
      3. Jealous Conflict
      4. From Vigilance to Violence: Tactics of Mate Retention
      5. Conflict over Access to Resources
    4. Status, Prestige, and Social Dominance
      1. The Emergence of Dominance Hierarchies
      2. Dominance and Status in Nonhuman Animals
      3. Evolutionary Theories of Dominance and Status
  6. An Integrated Psychological Science
    1. Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology
      1. Evolutionary Cognitive Psychology
      2. Evolutionary Social Psychology
      3. Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
      4. Evolutionary Personality Psychology
      5. Evolutionary Clinical Psychology
      6. Evolutionary Cultural Psychology
      7. Toward a Unified Psychology

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