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 Evolutionary Psychology September 25, 2009
A. Patel (Austin, TX USA)
This book was in excellent condition and it was in a much better condition than I thought it would be in.
Excellent!! September 4, 2009
Amy K. Jennings (Grapevine, TX)
The book was in excellent condition and exactly what I expected! The book was practically brand new and came in really quickly!
 Interesting read June 11, 2009
Ann N. Dickey (Lee's Summit, MO USA)
This is a very plain worded book, and interesting as a read for anyone, psychology majors or not. It is very up-to-date on information from all the related latest studies, and provided a good perspective into the motives with which we live our lives. Highly suggest as a read for anyone interested in human psychology.
Great for reading in bed. May 8, 2009
Mr. W. Waters (Australia)
Love it. We are so bent on characterising ourselves as psychological/spiritual beings. This book brings us promptly down to earth and explains the myriad ways we can first explain our behaviour to the full from a biological perspective. This book is fun, agreeable reading for those who are comfortable with looking at humans as being a part of the animal kingdom, and who are ready to assign them instincts as readily as we do other animals.
 Faulty logic April 27, 2009
Viktor Blasjo
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The following example may indicate the poor intellectual quality of this triumphalist textbook. "Why people die (or do not live longer) poses an interesting puzzle. The theory of senescence explains why. Basically, selection is most potent early in life because any events that happen early can affect the entire span of a person's reproductive years. As people get older, however, the power of selection weakens---in the extreme, a bad event that happened to you right before you died would have little or no consequences on your reproduction" (p. 96, 1st ed.). The folly of this argument is clear by comparing it to what Buss said just one page earlier: "we can conclude ... that there are conditions that could select for psychological mechanisms that would prompt a person to commit suicide" (p. 95). Now what is suicide if not "a bad event that happened to you right before you died"? Thus there can be no selection pressure neither for nor against it, according to Buss's own argument. The hidden assumption in the first argument is clearly that the "bad event" occurs when you are no longer reproductively active. But then what kind of answer is this to the original question? It is obviously nonsensical and question-begging to say that we don't live to be 300 years old because we are not reproductively active past 40. The real question is why we don't have more reproductive years.
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