The Foundations of evolutionary psychology -- The evolutionary psychology of sex and gender -- The charms and consequences of evolutionary psychology -- Kinds of people -- Rational choice theory -- Freedom of the will
Summary
John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolutionary theory, and another set of experts using economic models to give rules of how we act to achieve those ends. Dupré demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work, and furthermore that if taken seriously their theories tend to have dangerous social and political consequences
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index
