00809nac# 22002051i 450 UON0017696620231205103116.52920030730f |0itac50 baIT|||| |||||b|||||||||| Collana Le GuideRomaStudio Romano della Comunicazione Sociale001UON002311872001 Comunicazione e pastoraleSociologia pastorale degli strumenti della comunicazione socialeEnrico Baragli205 3. edizione210 RomaStudio Romano della Comunicazione Sociale1974215 565 p.24 cm.2ITRomaUONL000004Studio Romano della Comunicazione SocialeUONV269311650ITSOL20240220RICAUON00176966Collana Le Guide1844798UNIOR05106nam 22007214a 450 991096039390332120250422003846.09786612099236978026226111102622611119781282099234128209923X9780262282376026228237297814356111461435611144(CKB)1000000000480579(EBL)3338753(SSID)ssj0000151577(PQKBManifestationID)11161093(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151577(PQKBWorkID)10319747(PQKB)10112109(MiAaPQ)EBC3338753(OCoLC)182722906(OCoLC)518440034(OCoLC)608376251(OCoLC)647678125(OCoLC)743198339(OCoLC)764482676(OCoLC)815776636(OCoLC)961523951(OCoLC)962624499(OCoLC)974196461(OCoLC)982317864(OCoLC)988501312(OCoLC)990598448(OCoLC)990703302(OCoLC)992075816(OCoLC)992111944(OCoLC)1014395922(OCoLC)1014423831(OCoLC)1014476947(OCoLC)1014488865(OCoLC)1018019809(OCoLC)1019802529(OCoLC)1032577399(OCoLC)1037916257(OCoLC)1038688215(OCoLC)1041619410(OCoLC)1044455979(OCoLC)1045610769(OCoLC)1047696047(OCoLC)1053469378(OCoLC)1055372689(OCoLC)1056527356(OCoLC)1064152538(OCoLC)1078087224(OCoLC)1081217880(OCoLC-P)182722906(MaCbMITP)7464(Au-PeEL)EBL3338753(CaPaEBR)ebr10197074(CaONFJC)MIL209923(OCoLC)182722906(EXLCZ)99100000000048057920060918d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEvolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology /Robert C. Richardson1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. MIT Pressc20071 online resource (227 p.)Life and mind"A Bradford book."9780262514217 0262514214 9780262182607 0262182602 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208) and index.Introduction : Man's place in nature -- The ambitions of evolutionary psychology -- Reverse engineering and adaptation -- The dynamics of adaptation -- Recovering evolutionary history -- Idle Darwinizing.A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results. Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits--including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and jealousy to language and reason--can be understood as specific adaptations to ancestral Pleistocene conditions. In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology. The claims of evolutionary psychology may pass muster as psychology; but what are their evolutionary credentials? Richardson considers three ways adaptive hypotheses can be evaluated, using examples from the biological literature to illustrate what sorts of evidence and methodology would be necessary to establish specific evolutionary and adaptive explanations of human psychological traits. He shows that existing explanations within evolutionary psychology fall woefully short of accepted biological standards. The theories offered by evolutionary psychologists may identify traits that are, or were, beneficial to humans. But gauged by biological standards, there is inadequate evidence: evolutionary psychologists are largely silent on the evolutionary evidence relevant to assessing their claims, including such matters as variation in ancestral populations, heritability, and the advantage offered to our ancestors. As evolutionary claims they are unsubstantiated. Evolutionary psychology, Richardson concludes, may offer a program of research, but it lacks the kind of evidence that is generally expected within evolutionary biology. It is speculation rather than sound science--and we should treat its claims with skepticism.Life and mind.Evolutionary psychologyEvolutionary psychology.155.7Richardson Robert C.1949-61244MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960393903321Evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology4370490UNINA