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Evolutionary Psychology
The New Science of the Mind
Sixth Edition
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PREFACE
Welcome to the Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank (IMTB) for David M. Buss’s (2019) Evolutionary
Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (6th ed.). Each chapter of this IMTB begins with a Summary of
the material covered in the text chapter. Next, several Suggested Readings are presented for the Instructor
who wishes to become more familiar with some important background reading. Finally, forty to sixty
multiple choice questions and answers are provided for each chapter to assess students’ understanding of the
material covered therein. I hope this IMTB is useful to you in your efforts to educate students about
Evolutionary Psychology, the new science of the mind.
Patrick Durkee
University of Texas at Austin
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CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENTS LEADING TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter Summary
Before Charles Darwin offered the theory of natural selection, evolutionary biology lacked a causal
explanation for how changes in life forms occurred. The theory of natural selection was Darwin’s first
contribution to evolutionary biology. It has three essential ingredients: variation, inheritance, and differential
reproduction. Natural selection occurs when some inherited variations lead to greater reproductive success
than other inherited variations. In short, natural selection is defined as changes over time due to the
differential reproductive success of inherited variants.
Natural selection provided a unifying theory for the biological sciences and solved several important
mysteries. First, it provided a causal process by which the modification of organic structures takes place
over time. Second, it proposed a theory to account for the origin of new species. Third, it united all life into
one grand tree of descent and simultaneously revealed the place of humans in the grand scheme of life. The
fact that it has now survived more than a century and a half of scientific scrutiny, despite many attempts to
find flaws in it, must surely qualify it as a great scientific theory (Alexander, 1979; Dennett, 1995).
In addition to natural selection, sometimes referred to as “survival selection,” Darwin devised a second
evolutionary theory: the theory of sexual selection. Sexual selection deals with the evolution of
characteristics due to success in mating rather than to success in survival. Sexual selection operates through
two processes: intrasexual competition and intersexual selection. In intrasexual competition, victors in same-
sex contests are more likely to reproduce due to increased sexual access to mates. In intersexual selection,
individuals with qualities that are preferred by the opposite sex are more likely to reproduce. Both processes
of sexual selection result in evolution—change over time due to differences in mating success.
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A major stumbling block for many biologists was that Darwin lacked a workable theory of inheritance. This
theory was provided when the work of Gregor Mendel was recognized and synthesized with Darwin’s
theory of natural selection in a movement called the Modern Synthesis. According to this theory, inheritance
does not involve blending of the two parents but rather is particulate. Genes, the fundamental unit of
inheritance, come in discrete packets that are not blended but rather are passed on intact from parent to child.
The particulate theory of inheritance provided the missing ingredient to Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
Following the Modern Synthesis, two European biologists, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolas Tinbergen, started
and popularized a new movement called ethology, which sought to place animal behavior within an
evolutionary context by focusing on both the origins and functions of behavior.
In 1964, the theory of natural selection itself was reformulated in a revolutionary pair of articles published
by W. D. Hamilton. The process by which selection operates, according to Hamilton, involves not just
classical fitness (the direct production of offspring), but also inclusive fitness, which includes the effects of
an individual’s actions on the reproductive success of genetic relatives, weighted by the appropriate degree
of genetic relatedness. The inclusive fitness reformulation provided a more precise theory of the process of
natural selection by promoting a “gene’s eye” view of selection.
In 1966, George Williams published the now classic Adaptation and Natural Selection, which had three
effects. First, it led to the downfall of group selection. Second, it promoted the inclusive fitness revolution
and helped to champion differential gene reproduction as the central causal process of evolution by
selection. And third, it provided rigorous criteria for identifying adaptations, such as efficiency, reliability,
and precision. In the 1970s, Robert Trivers built on the work of Hamilton and Williams, offering three
seminal theories that remain important today: reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and parent–offspring
conflict.
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Test Bank For Evolutionary Psychology 6th Edition
By David M Buss 9781138088184 Chapter 1-13 Complete
Guide .
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Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank
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Evolutionary Psychology
The New Science of the Mind
Sixth Edition
prepared by
Patrick Durkee
University of Texas at Austin
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PREFACE
Welcome to the Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank (IMTB) for David M. Buss’s (2019) Evolutionary
Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (6th ed.). Each chapter of this IMTB begins with a Summary of
the material covered in the text chapter. Next, several Suggested Readings are presented for the Instructor
who wishes to become more familiar with some important background reading. Finally, forty to sixty
multiple choice questions and answers are provided for each chapter to assess students’ understanding of the
material covered therein. I hope this IMTB is useful to you in your efforts to educate students about
Evolutionary Psychology, the new science of the mind.
Patrick Durkee
University of Texas at Austin
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CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENTS LEADING TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter Summary
Before Charles Darwin offered the theory of natural selection, evolutionary biology lacked a causal
explanation for how changes in life forms occurred. The theory of natural selection was Darwin’s first
contribution to evolutionary biology. It has three essential ingredients: variation, inheritance, and differential
reproduction. Natural selection occurs when some inherited variations lead to greater reproductive success
than other inherited variations. In short, natural selection is defined as changes over time due to the
differential reproductive success of inherited variants.
Natural selection provided a unifying theory for the biological sciences and solved several important
mysteries. First, it provided a causal process by which the modification of organic structures takes place
over time. Second, it proposed a theory to account for the origin of new species. Third, it united all life into
one grand tree of descent and simultaneously revealed the place of humans in the grand scheme of life. The
fact that it has now survived more than a century and a half of scientific scrutiny, despite many attempts to
find flaws in it, must surely qualify it as a great scientific theory (Alexander, 1979; Dennett, 1995).
In addition to natural selection, sometimes referred to as “survival selection,” Darwin devised a second
evolutionary theory: the theory of sexual selection. Sexual selection deals with the evolution of
characteristics due to success in mating rather than to success in survival. Sexual selection operates through
two processes: intrasexual competition and intersexual selection. In intrasexual competition, victors in same-
sex contests are more likely to reproduce due to increased sexual access to mates. In intersexual selection,
individuals with qualities that are preferred by the opposite sex are more likely to reproduce. Both processes
of sexual selection result in evolution—change over time due to differences in mating success.
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A major stumbling block for many biologists was that Darwin lacked a workable theory of inheritance. This
theory was provided when the work of Gregor Mendel was recognized and synthesized with Darwin’s
theory of natural selection in a movement called the Modern Synthesis. According to this theory, inheritance
does not involve blending of the two parents but rather is particulate. Genes, the fundamental unit of
inheritance, come in discrete packets that are not blended but rather are passed on intact from parent to child.
The particulate theory of inheritance provided the missing ingredient to Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
Following the Modern Synthesis, two European biologists, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolas Tinbergen, started
and popularized a new movement called ethology, which sought to place animal behavior within an
evolutionary context by focusing on both the origins and functions of behavior.
In 1964, the theory of natural selection itself was reformulated in a revolutionary pair of articles published
by W. D. Hamilton. The process by which selection operates, according to Hamilton, involves not just
classical fitness (the direct production of offspring), but also inclusive fitness, which includes the effects of
an individual’s actions on the reproductive success of genetic relatives, weighted by the appropriate degree
of genetic relatedness. The inclusive fitness reformulation provided a more precise theory of the process of
natural selection by promoting a “gene’s eye” view of selection.
In 1966, George Williams published the now classic Adaptation and Natural Selection, which had three
effects. First, it led to the downfall of group selection. Second, it promoted the inclusive fitness revolution
and helped to champion differential gene reproduction as the central causal process of evolution by
selection. And third, it provided rigorous criteria for identifying adaptations, such as efficiency, reliability,
and precision. In the 1970s, Robert Trivers built on the work of Hamilton and Williams, offering three
seminal theories that remain important today: reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and parent–offspring
conflict.
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