Animal models and evolution

What ideas about human psychology have come by comparing humans to other animals? How has evolutionary theory been applied to human behavior? How should we think critically about these approaches and their implications?

Burns, J. K. (2003). An evolutionary theory of schizophrenia: Cortical connectivity, metarepresentation and the social brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

• http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/11/88/index.html

Buss, D. M. (1995). Psychological sex differences: Origins through sexual selection. American Psychologist, 50, 164-168.

Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (January 13, 1997). "Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer" (online web page)

• http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html

Darwin, C. (1874). The descent of man (2nd ed.). London: J. Murray.

• http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Darwin/Descent/index.htm

Galton, F. (1865). Hereditary talent and character. Macmillan’s Magazine, 12, 157-166, 318-327. (Galton describes racial differences in what he portrays as a recent evolution from barbarism.)

• http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/talent.htm