Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Philosophical issues: 1. Evolutionary psychology in the round / Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett -- 2. The power of culture / Henry Plotkin -- 3. Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective / Matteo Mameli -- 4. Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology / Kevin N. Laland -- 5. Group-level evolutionary processes / David Sloan Wilson -- Section II. The comparative approach: 6. Homologizing the mind / Drew Rendall, Hugh Notman and John R. Vokey -- 7. Social knowledge in primates / Josep Call -- 8. Social cognition in non-primates / Redouan Bshary, Lucie H. Salwiczek and Wolfgang Wickler -- 9. Culture in primates and other animals / Carel P. van Schaik -- 10. Empathy, sympathy and prosocial preferences in primates / Joan B. Silk -- Section III. Evolutionary neurobiology and cognition: 11. Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system / Robert A. Barton -- 12. The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain / Jaak Panksepp -- 13. Neural pathways of social cognition / Tjeerd Jellema and David I. Perrett -- 14. Mirror neurons and social cognition / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Leonardo Fogassi -- 15. Mechanisms of ecological rationality : heuristics and environments that make us smart / Peter M. Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer -- Section IV. Development: 16. The evolution of empathizing and systemizing : assortative mating of two strong systemizers and the cause of autism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- 17. The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation / Emily Wyman and Michael Tomasello -- 18. Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies / Jay Belsky -- 19. Parental impacts on development : how proximate factors mediate adaptive plans / Tamas Bereczkei -- 20. Evolution of stress response to social threat / Mark V. Flinn -- 21. Birth order and sibling competition / Frank J. Sulloway -- Section V. Mating, reproduction and life history: 22. Body odours and body odour preferences in humans / Claus Wedekind -- 23. Reproductive strategies and tactics / Steven W. Gangestad -- 24. Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection / Gillian Rhodes and Leigh W. Simmons -- 25.Sex differences in aggression / Anne Campbell -- The evolutionary ecology of human family size / Ruth Mace -- 27. Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans / Virpi Lummaa -- 28. Evolutionary psychology meets history : insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies / Eckart Voland -- 29. Risk and decision-making / Bruce Winterhalder -- Section VI. The self and the social world: 30. Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems / Bobbie S. Low -- 31. Kinship and descent / Lee Cronk and Drew Gerkey -- 32. Individual differences / Daniel Nettle -- 33. Human evolution and social cognition / Mark Schaller, Justin H. Park and Douglas T. Kenrick -- 34. Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory : an evolutionary perspective / John J. Skowronski and Constantine Sedikides - 35. Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies / John H. Crook -- 36. Competitive altruism : a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups / Mark Van Vugt, Gilbert Roberts and Charlie Hardy -- 37. Ethnic nepotism as heuristic : risky transactions and public altruism / Frank Salter -- Section VII. Cultural evolution: 38. Dual-inheritance theory : the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution / Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath -- 39. Modelling cultural evolution / Richard McElreath and Joseph Henrich -- 40. Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology : from culture history to cultural evolution / Stephan Shennan -- 41. Memes / Robert Aunger -- 42. Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans / Herb Gintis ... [et al.] -- 43. Evolution of religion / Joseph A. Bulbulia -- 44. Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama / Joseph Carroll -- 45. Music and cognitive evolution / Ian Cross -- 46. Evolution of language / Simon Kirby.