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Until now, evolutionary psychologists have focused largely on understanding adult behavior, giving little sustained attention to childhood. Developmental psychologists, for their part, have been wary of the perceived genetic determinism of evolutionary thinking. This important volume brings together an array of prominent developmental scientists whose work is explicitly driven by evolutionary concerns. Presenting sophisticated new models for understanding gene-environment interactions, the authors demonstrate how evolutionary knowledge can enhance our understanding of key aspects of cognitive, social, and personality development. Tightly edited chapters examine how different developmental mechanisms have evolved and what role they play in children's functioning and their adaptation to adult life. Essential topics covered include parent-child relationships, aggression, puberty, infant perception and cognition, memory, language, and more.

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• I Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Developmental Psychology: Core Issues and Approaches
• 1 Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development: An Emerging Synthesis
• 2 Ontogeny and Evolution of the Social Child
• 3 The Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Evolution of Human Cognition: Evidence from Enculturated
• 4 Early Stress: Perspectives from Developmental Evolutionary Ecology
• 5 Developmental Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology: Tying the Theoretical and Empirical Threads
• II Personality and Social Development
• 6 Differential Susceptibility to Rearing Influence: An Evolutionary Hypothesis and Some Evidence
• 7 Determinants of Pubertal Timing: An Evolutionary Developmental Approach
• 8 Some Functional Aspects of Human Adolescence
• 9 Sex Differences in Competitive and Aggressive Behavior: A View from Sexual Selection Theory
• 10 Social Behavior and Personality Development: The Role of Experiences with Siblings and with Peers
• 11 Play: Types and Functions in Human Development
• 12 Evolutionary Origins and Ontogenetic Development of Incest Avoidance
• III Cognitive Development
• 13 Infant Perception and Cognition: An Evolutionary Perspective on Early Learning
• 14 Evolution and Development of Human Memory Systems
• 15 Language Evolution and Human Development
• 16 The Evolutionary History of an Illusion: Religious Causal Beliefs in Children and Adults
• 17 Cognitive Development and the Understanding of Animal Behavior
• 18 The Empathizing System: A Revision of the 1994 Model of the Mindreading System
• 19 Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning

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Evolutionary psychology has moved beyond its initial phase of demonstrating that evolved adaptations influence many areas of human behavior. Researchers have now begun to consider the two routes through which this influence occurs. The first involves physiological mechanisms that generate adaptive behavior; the second has to do with developmental factors. Ellis (Univ. of Arizona) and Bjorkland (Florida Atlantic Univ.) deal with the latter, offering essays that examine the behavioral effects of the interaction between the genes that evolution has given humans over history and the environments in which these genes are expressed. Beginning with a discussion of why humans spend a large part of their life span developing, the book considers topics both broad (e.g., the relation between culture and the developmental plasticity of the species) and narrow (e.g., development in many specific areas of personality and cognition). The essays offer sufficient background to make complicated theoretical issues accessible to readers who are relatively unfamiliar with developmental or evolutionary psychology. Accordingly, both longtime researchers and developing undergraduates will profit from this book, which makes a significant contribution to the integration of evolutionary and developmental psychology. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. S. I. Perloe Haverford College

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Bruce J. Ellis, PhD, spent the early years of his career at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand before taking up his current position as an Associate Professor of Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona. He completed his doctoral work in evolutionary psychology at the University of Michigan and his postdoctoral work in the National Institute of Mental Health's Developmental Psychopathology Training Program at Vanderbilt University. The major focus of his research is on testing conditional adaptation models of the effects of early family environments on the timing of pubertal development and first sexual and reproductive activity. Dr. Ellis received the 1999 John F. Kennedy Center Young Scientist Award and has served on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology , Evolutionary Psychology , Personality and Social Psychology Review , and Personal Relationships .

David F. Bjorklund, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental psychology since 1976. His research has focused primarily on children's cognitive development, particularly memory and strategy development. More recent interests include the adaptive nature of immaturity, deferred imitation in juvenile great apes, and evolutionary developmental psychology. Dr. Bjorklund is the author of several books, including The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony D. Pellegrini). He is a former Associate Editor of Child Development and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , Journal of Cognition and Development, Developmental Review , Educational Psychology Review , Journal of Comparative Psychology , Developmental Psychology , Cognitive Development , and School Psychology Quarterly .