Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History
Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History traces the history of evolutionary thought in psychology in an accessible and lively fashion and examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.

  • First book to trace the history of evolutionary thinking in psychology from its beginnings to the present day in an accessible and lively fashion.
  • Focuses on the rise of evolutionary theories begun by Lamarck and Darwin and the creation of the science of psychology.
  • Explains evolutionary thought's banishment by behaviorism and cultural anthropology in the early 20th century, along with its eventual re-emergence through ethology and sociobiology.
  • Examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.
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Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History
Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History traces the history of evolutionary thought in psychology in an accessible and lively fashion and examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.

  • First book to trace the history of evolutionary thinking in psychology from its beginnings to the present day in an accessible and lively fashion.
  • Focuses on the rise of evolutionary theories begun by Lamarck and Darwin and the creation of the science of psychology.
  • Explains evolutionary thought's banishment by behaviorism and cultural anthropology in the early 20th century, along with its eventual re-emergence through ethology and sociobiology.
  • Examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.
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Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History

Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History

by Henry Plotkin
Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History

Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History

by Henry Plotkin

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Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History traces the history of evolutionary thought in psychology in an accessible and lively fashion and examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.

  • First book to trace the history of evolutionary thinking in psychology from its beginnings to the present day in an accessible and lively fashion.
  • Focuses on the rise of evolutionary theories begun by Lamarck and Darwin and the creation of the science of psychology.
  • Explains evolutionary thought's banishment by behaviorism and cultural anthropology in the early 20th century, along with its eventual re-emergence through ethology and sociobiology.
  • Examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781405113786
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/23/2004
Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology , #11
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Henry Plotkin is Professor of Psychobiology at University College London. He is the author of Darwin Machines (1994), Evolution in Mind (1997) and most recently The Imagined World Made Real (2002)."

Table of Contents

Preface ix

CHAPTER 1 CURIOUS HISTORIES 1

CHAPTER 2 BEFORE DARWIN 9

Preliminaries 10

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 20

Herbert Spencer 24

CHAPTER 3 PSYCHOLOGY BORN AND THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION 28

The New Science of Mind 28

The Darwinian Revolution 33

Darwin’s Immediate Successors 38

Early Psychology in the United States 44

CHAPTER 4 THE NEAR DEATH OF DARWINISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 48

Evolution after Darwin 48

Behaviorism Takes Hold in Psychology 53

The Rise of Cultural Anthropology 62

CHAPTER 5 AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE 70

The Fundamental Problem 71

A New Factor in Evolution 77

Evolutionary Epistemology 83

Fall and Decline 88

CHAPTER 6 LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: ETHOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 90

Classical Ethology 91

Sociobiology 105

CHAPTER 7 CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY 123

Evolutionary Theory from 1959 124

Necessary Precursors in the Main Discipline 129

Evolutionary Psychology Reborn 134

Which Side is Bringing Science into Disrepute? 148

A Natural Science of Culture 154

CHAPTER 8 FUTURE PROSPECTS 158

References 162

Index 166

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