xii, 233 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

In memoriam: W.D. Hamilton -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Evolutionary psychology: an introduction -- The relationship between the theory of evolution and the social sciences, particularly psychology -- pt. 2. Evolutionary perspectives on human reproduction behavior -- Evolutionary psychology: counting babies or studying information-processing mechanisms -- Desires in human mating -- Human sexual selection, good genes, and special design -- Mental traits as fitness indicators: expanding evolutionary psychology's adaptationism -- The optimal number of fathers: evolution, demography and history in the shaping of female mate preferences -- The other "closest living relative": how Bonobos (Pan paniscus) challenge traditional assumptions about females, dominance intra- and intersexual interactions and hominid evolution -- The elements of a scientific theory of self-deception -- The evolution of moral dispositions in the human species -- Genomic imprinting, sex-biased dispersal and social behavior -- Do extraterrestrials have sex (and intelligence)? -- pt. 3. Commentaries -- Freud: the first evolutionary psychologist? -- Female reproductive strategies as social organizers -- Sex, sex differences, and social behavior -- Mood as mechanism -- Resisting biology: the unpopularity of a gene's-eye view -- On the evolution of misunderstandings about evolutionary psychology

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