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Important Books in Evolutionary Psychology

Alexander, R.D. (1979). Darwinism and Human Affairs. Seattle:University of Washington Press.

Alexander, R.D. (1987). The Biology of Moral Systems. New York: Aldine de Gruyeter.

Andersson, M (1994). Sexual Selection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Atkinson, R.C., Herrnstein, R.J., Lindzey, G., and Luce, R.D. (Eds.). The adaptive-evolutionary point of view in experimental psychology. Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Axelrod, R. (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic Books, Inc.

Baker, R., & Bellis, M. (1995). Human Sperm Competition. London: Chapman & Hall.

Baker, R. (1996). Sperm wars: The Science of Sex. New York: Basic Books.

Barash, D. (1949). The Whisperings Within: Evolution and the Origin of Human Nature. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Barash, D.P. (1982). Sociobiology and Behavior. (2nd Ed.). New York: Elsevier.

Barkow, J.H., Comides, L. and Tooby, J. (1992). The Adapted mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Barrett, H. C., & Kurzban, R. (2006). Modularity in cognition: Framing the debate. Psychological Review, 113(3), 628-647. PDF

Bateson, P. (Ed.)(1993). Mate Choice. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Betzig, L. (1986). Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Betzig, L., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., & Turke, P. (Eds.),(1987). Human Reproductive Behavior. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Betzig, L. (Ed.)(1996). Human Nature: A Critical Reader. New York: Oxford University Press.

Boorman, S.A., Levitt, P.R. (1980). The Genetics of Altruism. New York: Academic Press.

Bowler, P.J. (1989). Evolution: The History of an Idea. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Brackman, A.C. (1980). A Delicate Arrangement. New York: Times Books.

Brown. D.E. (1991). Human Universals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Bryant, G. A., & Barrett, H. C. (2007). Recognizing intentions in infant-directed speech: Evidence for universals.  Psychological Science, 18(8), 746-751. PDF

Buss, D.M. (1994). The evolution of desire: Strategies of Human Mating. New York: Basic Books.

Buss, D.M., & Malamuth, N. (Eds.) (1996). Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.

Buss, D.M. (2000).  The dangerous passion: Why jealousy is as necessary as love and sex. New York: The Free Press. [Translated and published in France, China, the Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Poland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Portugal]

Buss, D.M. (2003).  The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating (Revised Edition). New York: Basic Books. [Translated and published in France, Germany, China, Korea, Japan, Poland, Italy, Spain, Sweden]

Buss, D.M. (Ed.)(2005).  The handbook of evolutionary psychology. New York: Wiley.

Buss, D.M. (2005).  The murderer next door: Why the mind is designed to kill. New York: The Penguin Press. [translated into German, Japanese, Korean, Polish]

Buss, D.M. (2008).  Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind, 3nd Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Calvin, W.H. (1990). The Ascent of Mind. New York: Bantam Books.

Carroll, J. (1995). Evolution and Literary Theory. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Chagnon, N. (1983). Yanomamo: The Fierce People. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.

Crawford, C., Smith, M.,Krebs, D. (1987). Sociobiology and Psychology. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Cronin. H. (1991). The Ant and the Peacock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crooks, P. (1994). Darwinism, War and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Daly, M. and Wilson, M. (1983). Sex, Evolution, and Behavior. California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Daly M. and Wilson M. (1988) Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide. Science 242: 519-524

Daly, M. and Wilson, M. (1988). Homicide. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Darwin, C. (1958). The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: Murray.

Darwin, C. (1871). The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: Murray.

Davies, M., Davies, H. and Davies, K. (1992). Humankind the Gatherer-Hunter: From Earliest Times to Industry. Pink Hill, England: Myddle-Brockton Publishers.

Dawkins, R. (1971). The Extended Phenotype. California: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.

Dawkins, R. (1976). The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dawkins, R. (1986). The Blind Watchmaker. Harlow: Longman.

Dawkins, R. (1989). The selfish gene (new edition).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Dawkins, R. (1995). River Out of Eden. New York: Basic Books.

De Woal, F. (1996). Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Dennett, D.C. (1991). Consciousness explained. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Dennett, D.C. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Diamond, J. (1992). The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York: Harper Perennial.

Dunbar, R. I. M. & Barrett, L. (Eds.) (2007). The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Eberhard, W.G. (1996). Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Eccles, J.C. (1989). Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self. London: Routledge.

Eldredge, N. (1993). History, Function, and Evolutionary Biology. In: M.K. Hecht et al. (Eds). Evolutionary Biology, 27, 33-50.

Eldredge, N. (1995). Reinventing Darwin. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ellis, L., Hoffman, H. (1990). Crime in Biological, Social, and Moral Contexts. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Eldredge, N., and Gould, S.J. (1972). In T.J.M Schopf (Ed). Punctuated equilibria: An alternative to phyletic gradualism. Paleobiology. San Francisco: Freeman & Company.

Ewald, P.W. (1994). Evolution of Infectious Disease. New York: Oxford University Press.

Farrett, L. (1994). The Coming Plague. Farrar, Strause and Giroux.

Fisher, R.A. (1930/1958). The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. New York: Dover.

Frank, R. (1988). Passions Within Reason. New York: Norton.

Frederick, D. A. & Haselton, M. G. (2007). Why is muscularity sexy? Tests of the fitness-indicator hypothesis.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1167-1183.

Gangestad, S. W. & Simpson, J. A. (Eds.) (2007). The evolution of mind. New York: The Guilford Press.

Gazzaniga, M.S. (1992). Nature's Mind. New York: Basic Books.

Goodall, J. (1990), Through a Window. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Gottlieb, G. (1992). Individual Development and Evolution: The Genesis of Novel Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gould, S.J.(1977). Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Gould, J.L. and Gould, C.G. (1989). Sexual Selection. New York: Scientific American Library.

Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Gould, S.J. (1996). Full house: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. New York: Harmony Books.

Haley, K.J. and Fessler, D.M.T. (2005) Nobodyís watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an anonymous economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(3):245-256. Download PDF

Hamilton, W.D. (1964). The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-16, 17-52.

Hamilton, W.D. (1996). Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 1: Evolution of Social Behaviour. Oxford, England: W.H. Freeman.

Hamilton, W.D. (2001). Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hamilton, W.D. (2005). Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 3: Last words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haselton M. G. & Buss, D. M. (2000). Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 81-91. PDF Format

Haselton, M. G., Mortezaie, M., Pillsworth, E. G., Bleske-Recheck, A. E., & Frederick, D. A. (2007). Ovulation and human female ornamentation: Near ovulation, women dress to impress. Hormones and Behavior, 51, 40-45. PDF Format

Hauser, M. D. (2006). Moral minds. New York: Harper Collins.

Hernstein, R.J. and Murray, C. (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. New York: The Free Press.

Hohanson, D. and Shreeve, J. (1989). Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Hrdy, S.B. (1981). The Woman that Never Evolved. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Humphrey, N. (1992). A History of the Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Jackendoff, R. (1994). Patterns in the Mind. New York: Basic Books.

Jaynes, J. (1976). The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Johanson, D. C. and O'Farrell, K. (1990). Journey from the Dawn: Life with the World's First Family. New York: Villard Books.

Johanson, D., Johanson, L. & Edgar, B. (1994). Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins. New  

Johnson, J.L., McAndrew, F.T., and Harris, P.B. Sociobiology and the Naming of Adopted and Natural Children. New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.

Kauffman, S.A. (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kauffman, S. (1995). At Home in the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kellert, S.R. and Wilson, E.O. (Eds.). (1993). The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, D.C., Island Press.

Kitcher, P. (1985). Vaulting Ambition. Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Kuhn, T.S. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Larsen, R., & Buss, D.M. (2008).  Personality: Domains of knowledge about human nature, 3nd Edition. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.

Leakey, R. and Lewin, R. (1992). Origins: Reconsidered. New York: Doubleday.

Lewin, R. (1993). The Origin of Modern Humans. New York: Scientific American Library.

Lieberman, P. (1991). Uniquely Human. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007). The architecture of human kin detection. Nature, 445, 727-731.

Lopreato, J. (1984). Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution. Boston: Allen and Unwin.

Lumsden, C.J. and Wilson, E.O. (1981). Genes, Mind, and Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Marks, I.M. (1987). Fears, Phobias, and Rituals. New York: Oxford.

Marr, D. (1982). Vision. San Francisco: Freeman.

Mayr, E. (1976). Evolution and the Diversity of Life. Harvard University Press.

Mayr, E. (1982). The Growth of Biological Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Mayr, E. (1988). Toward a New Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Margulis, L. and Sagan, D. (1991). Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality. New York: Summit Books.

McElreath, R. & Boyd, R. (2007). Mathematical models of social evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McNeill, W.H. (1976). Plagues and Peoples. Garden City: Anchor Books.

Mitchell, G. (1981). Human Sex Differences: A Primatologist's Perspective. New York: Litton Educational Publishing, Inc.

Mock, D. W. & Parker, G. A. (1997). The evolution of sibling rivalry. Oxford: Oxford University press.

Moorehead, A. (1969). Darwin and the Beagle. New York: Harper and Row Publishers.

Nesse, R.M. and Williams, G.C. (1994). Why We Get Sick. New York: Times Books.

Nettle, D. (2006). The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals. American Psychologist 61: 622-31. PDF

Nowak, M. A. (2006). Evolutionary dynamics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ornstein, R. (1991). Evolution of Consciousness. New York: A Touchstone Book.

Parker, S. (1992). The Dawn of Man. New York: Crescent Books.

Pinker, S. (1994). The Language Instinct. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Pillsworth, E. G. & Haselton, M. G. (2006). Womenís sexual strategies: The evolution of long-term bonds and extra-pair sex. Annual Review of Sex Research, 17, 59-100. PDF Format

Pinker (2002). The blank slate.  New York:  Norton.

Pinker, S. (in press). How the Mind Works. New York: Norton.

Pinker, S., & Bloom, P. (1990). Natural Language and Natural Selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 707-784.

Popper, K.R. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Prcherson, P. J. & Boyd, R. (2006) Not by genes alone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Profet, M. (1992).  Pregnancy sickness as adaptation:  A deterrent to maternal ingestion of teratogens. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind (pp. 327-366).  New York: Oxford University Press.

Raff, R.A. (1996). The Shape of Life: Genes Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Raup, D.M. (1991). Extinction: Bad genes or bad luck? New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Ridley, M. (1993). The Red Queen. New York: Penguin Books.

Rose, M.R. (1991). Evolutionary Biology of Aging. New York: Oxford Universiy Press.

Rushton, J.P. (1995). Race, Evolution and Behavior. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

Salmon, C. A. & Schackelford, T. K. (Eds.) (2007). Family relationships: an evolutionary perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Searle, J.R. (1992). The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Seligman, M.E.P., & Hagar, J.L. (Eds.)(1972). Biological Boundaries of Learning. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1990). The Roots of Thinking. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Shostak, M. (1981). Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Smith, J.M. (1989). Did Darwin Get it Right? New York: Chapman and Hall.

Stanley, S.M. (1987). Extinction. New York: Scientific American Library.

Stearns, S.C. (1992). The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Strickberger, M.W. (1990). Evolution. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Stringer, C. and Gamble, C. (1993). In Search of the Neanderthals. New York: Thames and Hudson, Ltd.

Sulloway, F. (1996). Born to Rebel. New York: Pantheon.

Symons, D. (1979).  The evolution of human sexuality.  New York:  Oxford.

Theissen, D. (1996). Bittersweet Destiny: The stormy evolution of human behavior. Transaction Publishers.

Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992).  Psychological foundations of culture.  In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind (pp. 19 - 136).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Trivers, R. (1985). Social Evolution. Menlo Park: Benjamin/Cummings.

Van der Dennen, J.M.G. (ed.) (1992). The Nature of the Sexes: The Sociobiology of Sex Differences and the 'Battle of the Sexes.' Netherlans: Origin Press.

Wallace, A.R. (1855). On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 26, 184-196.

Wallace, A.R. (1905). My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. London: reprinted Farnborough, Gregg International, 1969, two volumes.

Weinberg, S. (1992), Dreams of Final Theory. New York: Pantheon Books.

Williams, G.C. (1966). Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Williams, G.C. (1975). Sex and Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Williams, G.C. (1991). The dawn of Darwinian medicine. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 66, No. 1.

Williams, G.C. (1992). Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wilson, E.O. (1978). On Human Nature. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Wilson, E.O. (1992). The Diversity of Life. Cambridge: The Belknap Press.

Wilson, E.O. (1996). In Search of Nature. Washington, D.C.: Island Press

Wilson, E.O. (1975). Sociobiology: A new synthesis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Wilson, G. (1989). The Great Sex Divide: A Study of Male-Female Difference. London: Peter Owen Publishers.

Wilson, J.Q. and Hernstein, R.J. (1985). Crime and Human Nature. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Wright, Robert (1994). The Moral Animal. New York: Pantheon Books.

Important Papers in Evolutionary Psychology

Alexander, R.D., & Noonan, K.M. (1979). Concealment of ovulation, parental care, and human social evolution. In N.A. Chagnon & W. Irons (Eds.), Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective (pp. 402-435). North Scituate, MA : Duxbury.

Belsky, J., Steinberg, L., & Draper, P. (1991). Childhood experience, interpersonal development, and reproductive strategy: An evolutionary theory of socialization. Child Development, 62, 647-670.

Bereczkei, T. (1993). R-selected reproductive strategies among Hungarian Gypsies. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14, 71-88.

Betzig, L. (1989). Causes of conjugal dissolution: A cross-cultural study. Current Anthropology, 30, 654-676.

Betzig, L. (1993). Sex, succession, and stratification in the first six civilizations: How powerful men reproduced, passed power on to their sons, and used power to defend their wealth, women, and children. In: L. Ellis (Ed.), Social Stratification and Socioeconomic Inequality. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 37-74.

Bouchard, T.J., Lykken, D.T., McGue, M., Segal, N.L., and Tellegen, A. (1990). Sources of Human psychological differences: The Minnesota study of twins reared apart. Science, Vol. 250, 223-228.

Buss, D.M. (1988). The evolution of human intrasexual competition: Tactics of mate attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 661-628.

Buss, D.M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1-49.

Buss, D.M. (Ed.)(1990). Biological foundations of personality: Evolution, behavioral genetics, and psychophysiology. Journal of Personality. [special issue].

Buss, D.M. (1991). Evolutionary personality psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 45, 459-491.

Buss, D.M., Larsen, R.J., Westen, D. and Semmelbroth, J. (1992). Sex differences in jealousy: Evolution, physiology, and psychology. Psychological Science, 3, 251-255.

Buss, D.M., & Schmitt, D.P. (1993). Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232.

Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K. (in press). From vigilance to violence: Tactics of mate retention in married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Buss, D.M. (1995). Evolutionary psychology: A new paradigm for psychological science. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 1-30.

Cashden, E. (1993). Attracting mates: Effects of parental investment on mate attraction strategies. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14, 1-24.

Cavalli-Sforza, L.L., Piazza, A., Menozzi, P., and Mountain, J. (1988). Reconstruction of human evolution: Bringing together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic data. Procedures of The National Academy of Science, Vol. 85, pp.6002-6006.

Cavalli-Sforza, L. (1991). Genes, peoples and languages. Scientific American, November, 104-110.

Chagnon, N.A. (1979). Mate competition, favoring close kin, and village fissioning among the Yanomamo Indians. In: N.A. Chagnon and Irons, W. (Eds.). North Scituate, Massachusetts: Duxbury Press, 86-131.

Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Cognition, 31, 187-276.

Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (1992). Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In: J.H. Barkow, L. Cosmides and J. Tooby (Eds.), The Adapted Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 163-228.

Crawford, C. (1989). The theory of evolution: Of what value to psychology? Journal of Comparative Psychology, Vol. 103, No. 1,4-22.

Cunningham, M., Barbee, A., Pike, C. (1990). What do women want? Facialmetric assessment of multiple motives in the perception of male facial attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.59, No. 1, 61-72.

Daly, M., Wilson, M., & Weghorst, S.J. (1982). Male sexual jealousy. Ethology and Sociobiology, 3, 11-27.

Daly, M. and Wilson, M. (1981). Abuse and neglect of children in evolutionary perspective. In: R.D. Alexander and D.W. Tinkle (Eds.), Natural Selection and Social Behavior. New York: Chiron Press, Inc., 405-416.

Daly, M. and Wilson, M. (1988). Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide. Science, 242, 519-524.

deCatanzaro, D. (1980). Human suicide: a biologic perspective. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 265-290.

Eldredge, N. and Gould, S.J. (1972). Punctuated equilibria: An alternative to phyletic gradualism. In: T.J.M. Schopf (Ed.). Models in Paleobiology. San Francisco: Freeman, pp 82-115.

Ellis, B.J., & Symons, D. (1990). Sex differences in sexual fantasy: An evolutionary psychological approach. Journal of Sex Research, 38, 255-273.

Ellis, L. (1987). Criminal behavior and r/K selection: An extension of gene-based evolutionary theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 1-11.

Ellis, L. (1991). A synthesized (biosocial) theory of rape. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol.59, No. 5, 631-642.

Emlen, S.T. (1995). An evolutionary theory of the family. Procedures of The National Academy of Science, Vol. 92. pp. 8092-8099.

Essock-Vitale, S. (1984). The reproductive success of wealthy Americans. Ethology and Sociobiology 5: 45-49.

Ewald, P.W. (1990). Transmission modes and the evolution of virulence: With special reference to Cholera, Influenza, and AIDS. Human Nature, Vol.2, No. 1, pp.1-30.

Fisher, H.E. (1989). Evolution of human serial pairbonding. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 78, 331-354.

Fisher, H. (1994). The nature of romantic love. The Journal of NIH Research, 6, 59-64.

Fox, R. (1996). Sexual conflict in the epics. Human Nature, 6, 135-144.

Gangestad, S.W., & Simpson, J.A. (1990). Toward an evolutionary history of female sociosexual variation. Journal of Personality, 58, 69-96.

Gangestad, S.W. and Buss, D.M. (1993). Pathogen prevalence and human mate preferences. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14, 89-96.

Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1998). Menstrual cycle variation in women's preferences for the scent of symmetrical men. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 265, 727-733.

Gatesy, S.M., and Dial, K.P. (1996). Locomotor modules and the evolution of avian flight. Evolution, 50(1), 331-340.

Gilbert, D. (1991). How mental systems believe. American Psychologist, Vol.46, No. 2.

Gould, S.J. (1994). Lucy on the earth in stasis. Natural History, September, 12-20.

Gould, S.J., and Eldredge, N. (1977). Puncutated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered. Paleobiology, Vol.3, pp. 115-151.

Gould, S.J., and Eldredge, N. (1993). Punctuated equilibrium comes of age. Nature, Vol 366, 223-227.

Gould, S.J., and Lewontin, R.C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Procedures of the Royal Society of London B, 205, 581-598.

Grammer, K., and Thornhill, R. (1994). Human (Homo sapiens) Facial attractiveness and sexual selection: The role of symmetry and averageness. Journal of Comparative Psychology, Vol.108, No. 3, 233-242.

Haig, D. (1993). Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 68, No. 4.

Hamilton, W.D. (1964). The evolution of social behavior. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-52.

Hamilton, W.D. (1980). Sex versus non-sex versus parasite. Oikos, 35, 282-290.

Hamilton, W.D. (1963). The evolution of altruistic behavior. American Naturalist, 97, 354-356.

Hamilton, W.D. and Zuk, M. (1982) Heritable true fitness and bright birds: A role for parasites? Science, 218, 384-387.

Hartung, J. (1976). On natural selection and the inheritance of wealth. Current Anthropology, Vol.17, No. 4.

Harvey, P., and Krebs, J. (1990). Comparing Brains. Science, Vol. 249, 140-146.

Hill, K., & Hurtado, A.M. (1991). The evolution of premature reproductive senescence and menopause in human females. Human Nature, 2, 313-350.

Jerison, H.J. (1985). Animal intelligence as encephalization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B., 308, 21-35.

Keller, M.C., Thiessen, D. and Young, R.K. (1996). Mate assortment in dating and married couples. Personality & Individual Differences, 21, 217-221.

Kenrick, D.T., & Keefe, R.C. (1992). Age preferences in mates reflect sex differences in reproductive strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 75-133.

Langlois, J.H., & Roggman, L.A. (1990). Attractive faces are only average. Psychological Science, 1, 115-121.

Langlois, J.H., Roggman, L.A. and Musselman, L. (1994). What is average and what is not average about attractive faces. Psychological Science, 5, 214-220.

Leslie, A.M. (1991). The theory of mind impairment in autism: Evidence for modular mechanisms of development? In A. Whiten (Ed.), The Emergence of Mind Reading. Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Lopreato, J., and Yu, Mei-yu. (1988). Human fertility and fitness optimization. Ethology and Sociobiology , 9: 269-289.

Lovejoy, C. O. (1987). The origin of man. In: R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle (Eds.), Primate Evolution and Human Origins. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 289-298.

Low, B.S. (1989). Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children: An evolutionary perspective. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 103, 311-319.

Low, B.S. (1990). Marriage systems and pathogen stress in human societies. American Zoologist, 30, 325-339.

Lykken, D.T., McGue, M., Telligen, A. and Bouchard, T.J. Jr. (1992). Emergenesis: Genetic traits that may not run in families. American Psychologist, 47, 1565-1577.

MacDonald, K. (1992). Warmth as a developmental construct: An evolutionary analysis. Child Development, 63, 753-773.

McGue, M., and Lykken, D. Genetic influence on risk of divorce. Psychological Science, Vol.3, No. 6.

McGuire, M.T. (1979). Sociobiology: It's potential contributions to psychiatry. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol.23, No.1.

Mealey, L. (1985). The relationship between social status and biological success: A case study of the Mormon religious hierarchy. Ethology and Sociobiology, 6:249-257.

Nielsen, F. (1994). Sociobiology and Sociology. Annual Review of Sociobiology, 20: 267-303.

Orians, G.H., & Heerwagen, J.H. (1992). Evolved responses to landscapes. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The Adapted Mind (pp. 555-580). New York: Oxford.

Pedersen, F.A. (1991). Secular trends in human sex ratios: Their influence on individual and family behavior. Human Nature, 3, 271-291.

Perusse, D. (1992). Cultural and reproductive success in industrial societies: Testing the relationship at the proximate and ultimate levels. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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Cattell, R. B. (1987). Intelligence: Its structure, growth, and action. (Revised and reprinted from Abilities: Their structure, growth and action, 1971). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

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McArdle, J.J., Ferrer-Caja, E., Hamagami, F. & Woodcock, R.W. (2002). Comparative longitudinal multilevel structural analyses of the growth and decline of multiple intellectual abilities over the life-span. Developmental Psychology, 38, 115-142.

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Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2012). Preschools reduce early academic achievement gaps: A longitudinal twin approach. Psychological Science, 23, 310-319.

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Turkheimer, E., Haley, A., Waldron, M., D'Onofrio, B., & Gottesman, I. (2003). Socioeconomic status modifies heritability of IQ in young children. Psychological Science, 14, 623-628. 

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