By Henry Plotkin
ISBN-10: 1405113774
ISBN-13: 9781405113779
ISBN-10: 1405113782
ISBN-13: 9781405113786
- First ebook to track the background of evolutionary pondering in psychology from its beginnings to the current day in an available and vigorous fashion.
- Focuses at the upward push of evolutionary theories began via Lamarck and Darwin and the construction of the technological know-how of psychology.
- Explains evolutionary thought’s banishment through behaviorism and cultural anthropology within the early twentieth century, besides its eventual re-emergence via ethology and sociobiology.
- Examines the advanced and altering kinfolk among psychology and evolutionary theory.
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