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Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology

Kim Sterelny and Robert A. Wilson, editors

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Evolution in Four Dimensions , Eva Jablonska and Marion J. Lamb, 2005

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Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology , Robert C. Richardson, 2007

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

Robert C. Richardson

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Richardson, Robert C., 1949–.

Evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology / by Robert C. Richardson.

p. cm.—(Life and mind)

“A Bradford book.”

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-262-18260-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Evolutionary psychology. I. Title.

BF698.95.R44 2007

155.7—dc22

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