Ebook: Evolutionary psychology : the new science of the mind

Psyches do not evolve; their inner differentiations, whose whole set is called "mind", do. José Ingenieros, Christfried Jakob and Clemente Onelli started their serious study a century ago. Silenced by the political events abroad, though commnonly taught in the Iberoamerican neurobiology, these tenets became utterly ignored in the anglophone academy. It only recently re-discovered this field of research and, believing itself the "creator" of such a field, nowadays proclaims worldwide its own creativity and supposed inventiveness. (See "Diferencias entre neurociencias anglófonas y neurobiología", on Academia.edu, or "Mario Crocco" on LibGen). This book is a synthesis of such an anglophone stance that ignores its own roots. --- "Two chapters introduce the foundations of evolutionary psychology. Chapter 1 traces the scientific movements leading to evolutionary psychology. First, we describe the landmarks in the history of evolutionary theory, starting with theories of evolution developed before Charles Darwin and ending with modern formulations of evolutionary theory widely accepted in the biological sciences today. Next, we examine three common misunderstandings about evolutionary theory. Finally, we trace landmarks in the field of psychology, starting with the influence Darwin had on the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and ending with modern formulations of cognitive psychology. Chapter 2 provides the conceptual foundations of modern evolutionary psychology and introduces the scientific tools used to test evolutionary psychological hypotheses. The first section examines theories about the origins of human nature. Then we turn to a definition of the core concept of an evolved psychological mechanism and outline the properties of these mechanisms. The middle portion of Chapter 2 describes the major methods used to test evolutionary psychological hypotheses and the sources of evidence on which these tests are based. Because the remainder of the book is organized around human adaptive problems, the end of Chapter 2 focuses on the tools evolutionary psychologists use to identify adaptive problems, starting with survival and ending with the problems of group living."

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