Ethology, Sociobiology, and Evolutionary Psychology
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1. A century of evolutionary psychology The evolution of mind and behavior was of intense interest to Charles Darwin throughout his life. His views were made public a decade before his death in The Descent of Man (e.g. 1981 [1871]) and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1965 [1872]). Evolutionary psychology has been an active field of research and a topic of public controversy from that time to the present. At least four distinct phases can be distinguished in the development of evolutionary psychology since Darwin and his immediate successor George Romanes. These are: instinct theory, classical ethology, sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology, the last of which I capitalize to distinguish it from evolutionary psychology in general.
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