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Theology and evolutionary psychology
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A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A VERY OLD PROBLEM
LONG VIEWED AS THE BASIS FOR MODERN THEORIES of biological evolution, the ideas of Charles Darwin have recently begun to have a significant impact in psychology as well. In the last two decades, interest in innate, evolution-produced behavioral traits in humans and "other animals" has spread through academia and reached a level where even critics of this approach-such as Andrew Ferguson of The Weekly Standard-are now forced to describe it as the hottest field of science. Advocates of the Darwinian approach naturally use even more optimistic ...
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Evolutionary psychology returns to its Bowlbian roots
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.(Book Review)(Book Review)
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