Considering the potential of EP to mitigate some of our greatest social problems, the text examines the ways in which EP can be applied to society and religion. In the most famous example, scientists showed a picture of a snow scene to the left visual field—so, right brain—and a chicken’s claw to the right visual field.

When you’re a stepparent, they’re absorbing your partner’s energy, which they could be putting into your own natural children. So it’s very important that you don’t do things which cause other people to punish you, and that you choose the right side to be on when you’re ganging up with your rocks to punish someone else. This provocative book covers everything from genetic strategies and office politics to moral codes and public policies. Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age.It is unique in its interdisciplinary focus, which encompasses EP's impact on both psychological and non-psychological disciplines.

Bill Gates Yong succeeds in his intention to give us a 'grander view of life' and does so without falling prey to grand, unifying explanations that are far too simplistic. This is a concise and student-friendly survey of the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology (EP) and the controversies that surround it. Previously head of the Psychology Department at Bath Spa University, he received an undergraduate degree in psychology and biology (BA Joint Hons) from Keele University and his doctorate (DPhil) in animal behaviour from the University of Sussex. So it’s a wonderful book, both for the way it’s written, for the details, and for offering a background to evolutionary psychology.He argues that we are usually mistaken about this impression of conscious will; we usually infer an intention to do something from our actions, rather than from actually being able to consciously make something happen. It should be a welcome addition to the field that serves to further individuals' understanding of Evolutionary Psychology. He’s got to argue something that we wouldn’t have to now: that the ability to communicate through language is something that was subject to evolution in the first place.