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Psychology 452Evolutionary Psychology

    

Dr. Mills
 

Course syllabus 

Class wikis for student projects and writing assignments:

        DrMillsLMU.wikispaces.com  / DrMills.wiki-site.com

        Some older student panel presentations, and book chapter summaries -- here.

 

Additional term project / homework instructions:

bulletTerm project: Panel Instructions.

 

Classes: Spring, 2010 / Fall, 2009 / Spring, 2009 /Fall, 2008  / Spring, 2008 / Fall 2007Fall, 2006 Fall, 2005 / Spring, 2004 /  Spring, 2003 /  Fall, 2002 /  Fall, 2001Fall, 2000  /  Fall, 1999

 

 

What is evolutionary psychology? 

 

Brief video clip (from the "Evolution" PBS Series) -- Evolution, Sweaty T-Shirts, and Why Some Molecules Taste Sweet:


 

bulletSee a video of Steven Pinker discussing his book The Blank Slate.  
bulletAlso see the Human Behavior and Evolution Society website:  www.hbes.com

 

Some relevant journals:

Evolutionary Psychology (free online access)
        http://www.epjournal.net/

Evolution and Human Behavior
        http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ens
        http://hbes.com/about/journal.html

Human Nature
       http://www.archaeoworld.com/journals/humannature/

Evolution and Cognition  
       http://www.kli.ac.at/publications-a.html

Politics and the Life Sciences  
       http://www.lssu.edu/apls/pls/

Evolutionary Anthropology
       http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=38641

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
       http://www.bbsonline.org/

Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology
        http://www.jsecjournal.com/

Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology
        http://frontiersin.org/evolutionarypsychology

EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium
        http://evostudies.org/journal.html

The Journal of Integrated Social Sciences
        http://www.jiss.org/

Psycoloquy
        http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy
 

 

 

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches.
Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement
of each mental power and capacity by gradation.

     
-- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 449.