Sense & Nonsense

Subtitled 'Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', this is essential reading for those who want to understand the leading evolutionary approaches to psychological questions. The evolutionary idea is so powerful and dominant in our thinking that there is a danger that ir can be over-extended and cease to be scientific by becoming an imposed Procrustean pattern. This book critically examines five schools: sociobiology, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, memetics and gene-culture evolution. It analyses the various claims made and is true to its title of sorting out sense from nonsense.