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evolutionary psychology books, 2008-2010

Written on June 12, 2010

Here is a list of books on evolutionary psychology published 2008-2010 (had some catching up to do), based on a search of WorldCat.

2010
Adaptive Origins: Evolution and Human Development by Peter LaFreniere (Hove: Psychology Press) forthcoming Aug 2010. (amazon.co.uk – Sept. 2010)

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences by David M Buss, Patricia H Hawley (New York: Oxford University Press) forthcoming Nov 2010. (amazon.co.uk – Dec. 2010)

Evolutionary Psychology by Viren Swami (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) forthcoming July 2010 (amazon.co.uk – June 2010)

Evolutionary Psychology (The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought), ed. by Stefan Paul Linquist; Neil Levy; (Farnham: Ashgate) forthcoming Aug 2010. (amazon.co.uk – July 2010)

Evolutionary Psychology and Information Systems Research: A New Approach to Studying the Effects of Modern Technologies on Human Behavior (Integrated Series in Information Systems) ed. by Ned F Kock (New York; London: Springer) forthcoming July 2010. (amazon.co.uk – Aug 2010)

Getting Darwin Wrong: Why evolutionary psychology won’t work (Societas) by Brendan Wallace (Exeter: Imprint Academic) forthcoming Aug 2010. (amazon.co.uk – Aug 2010)

Human Morality and Sociality: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives ed. by Henrik Høgh-Olesen (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (amazon.co.uk)

In the Name of God: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series) by John Teehan (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). (amazon.co.uk)

Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why It Matters by Anjana Ahuja; Mark Van Vugt (London: Profile, 2010). forthcoming Jan 2011 (amazon.co.uk – Aug 2010)

Social Brain, Distributed Mind (Proceedings of the British Academy) by R I M Dunbar; Clive Gamble; John Gowlett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). (amazon.co.uk)

The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene (Heretics) by Mary Midgley (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press) forthcoming Sept 2010. (amazon.co.uk – Acumen, Sept 2010)

Supernormal Stimuli

Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010). (amazon.co.uk)

2009
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior (The Frontiers Collection) ed. by Eckart Voland; Wulf Schiefenhövel; (Dordrecht; New York: Springer, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

Essential Evolutionary Psychology by Simon Hampton (Los Angeles; London: SAGE, 2009, 2010). (amazon.co.uk)

Evolution and Genetics for Psychology by Daniel Nettle (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind ed. by Mark Schaller; et al (Hove: Psychology, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

The Evolution of Obesity by Michael L Power; Jay Schulkin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

Evolutionary Neuroscience ed. by Jon H Kaas (Oxford ; San Diego: Academic Press ; Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

The Evolutionary Origin Of Human Behavior: How Play And Evolution Carried Us From Our Reptile Predecessors To The Storytellers We Are by Keith C M Glegg (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc., 2009).

Foundations in Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience ed. by Steven M Platek; Todd K Shackelford (Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

The Moral Brain: Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality ed. by Jan Verplaetse; et al (Dordrecht; New York: Springer, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Michael Ruse (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking by Frederick L Coolidge; Thomas Grant Wynn (Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

The Sapient Mind: Archaeology meets neuroscience ed. by Colin Renfrew; Christopher D Frith; Lambros Malafouris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). (amazon.co.uk)

2008

Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature, 2nd Edition (Bradford Books) by John Cartwright (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

Evolutionary Forensic Psychology ed. by Joshua Duntley; Todd K Shackelford (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)
Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction, 2nd ed. by Lance Workman; Will Reader (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

An Evolutionary Psychology of Leader-Follower Relations by Patrick McNamara; David Trumbull (New York: Nova Science Pub Inc 2008) (amazon.co.uk)

Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd ed., ed. by Charles Crawford; Dennis Krebs (New York: Psychology Press, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

Healing The Unhappy Caveman: Why The Human Mind Was Not Designed For Happiness And What YOU Can Do About It by Chris Wilson (Atlanta: Libertas Press, 2008).

How Sadness Survived: The Evolutionary Basis of Depression by Paul Keedwell (Oxford; New York: Radcliffe Pub., 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity by Asher Seidel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary and Developmental Views ed. by Shoji Itakura; Kazuo Fujita (Tokyo: Springer, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry: The origins of psychopathology by Martin Brüne (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

What is Special About the Human Brain? (Oxford Psychology) by Richard Passingham; (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). (amazon.co.uk)

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