The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

I am rather worried by the title of this book. Using the term “evolutionary psychology” somehow implies that there are pockets of creationist flat‐earther psychologists lurking around. Indeed, of course, there may very well be – probably sitting on some US state school board or the governing body of some of the new British city academies. In fact, “evolutionary psychology” is a quite sensible way of pulling together a wide range of disjointed ideas into a coherent framework for the behavioural sciences. Much of early psychology was based on the bizarre idea that the human brain is a “blank slate”...