The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

Edited by Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford

Oxford Library of Psychology

Chapters include new findings and theoretical advances that have not been published or summarized elsewhere.
This volume brings together some of the leading scholars in the fields of comparative and evolutionary psychology - those with sometimes divergent viewpoints on popular, current topics.
Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY series.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

Edited by Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford

Description

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology ambitiously brings together an eclectic and provocative body of work from some of the brightest minds in comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology, highlighting the strengths and insights of each field. Across chapters, readers will come to appreciate the new field of "comparative evolutionary psychology," which successfully combines laboratory and field approaches, drawing on diverse methodologies and theoretical viewpoints to elucidate the mysteries of animal behavior and cognition. This comprehensive volume includes coverage of:

- Unique specializations in a wide range of taxa from insects, cephalopods, reptiles, corvids, canines, cetaceans, and primates
- Communication, cooperation, social learning, memory and cognitition in different species
- Controversial theories about the evolution of sometimes surprising abilities in species, both phylogenetically close to and distant from humans.

Suitable for seasoned researchers and graduate students alike, this volume reflects a range of views on human and non-human behavior and cognition, and advances these topics in a wide range of species.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

Edited by Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford

Oxford Library of Psychology

Contents

Section I: Introduction to Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

1. Toward Bridging Gaps: Finding Commonality among Evolutionary and Comparative Psychologists
Jennifer Vonk and Todd Shackelford

2. Why Behaviorism isn't Satanism
Louise Barrett

3. Confronting Language, Representation, and Belief: A Limited Defense of Mental Continuity
Kirsten Andrews and Ljiljana Radenovic

Section 2: Cognitive Specializations

4. Evolved Cognitive Specializations
Aaron Sell

5. Convergent Evolution of Cognition in Corvids, Apes and other animals
Jayden van Horik, Nicola Clayton, and Nathan Emery

6. Social Complexity and Intelligence
Robin Dunbar and A.J. Sutcliffe

7. Cephalopod Intelligence
Jennifer Mather

8. Cold-blooded cognition: Reptilian Cognitive Abilities
Anna Wilkinson and Ludwig Huber

9. Cetacean Cognitive Specializations
Kelly Jaakkola

10. Primate Cognitive Specializations
Erika Cartmill and Dario Maestripieri

11. The Evolution of Canine Cognition
Adam Miklosi

Section 3: Memory

12. Episodic Memory and Planning
Caroline R. Raby and Nicola Clayton

13. Comparative mental time travel: Is there a cognitive divide between humans and animals in episodic memory and planning?
Miranda Feeney and William Roberts

14. Animal Models of Human Cognition
Jonathan Crystal

15. Metamemory across Species
David Smith, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, Joseph Boomer, and Michael Beran

Section 4: Communication Systems

16. Symbolic Communication in the Grey Parrot
Irene Pepperberg

17. Communication in Non-human Primates
Klaus Zuberbuhler

18. Female preference functions provide a window into cognition, the evolution of communication, and speciation in plant-feeding insects
Reginald B. Cocroft and Laura E. Sullivan-Beckers

19. Apes and the Evolution of Language: Taking stock of 40 years of Research
Heidi Lyn

Section 5: Culture and Cooperation

20. The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Prosocial Behavior
Joan Silk and Bailey House

21. The Ontogeny and of Phylogeny Cooperation
Felix Warneken and Alicia P. Melis

22. Culture and the Evolution of Human Sociality
Alex Mesoudi and Keith Jensen

23. The Evolution of Morality: Which Aspects of Human Moral Concerns Are Shared With Non-Human Primates?
Mark Sheskin and Laurie Santos

24. The Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology of Social Learning and Culture
Lydia Hopper and Andrew Whiten
25. The Many Faces of Imitation: Cognitive and Motor Imitation in Children and Non-human Primates
Francys Subiaul

26. The Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior and Cognition in Primates
Christophe Boesch

Section 6: Conclusions and Future Directions

27. The Evolution of a Cooperative Social Mind
Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth

28. Darwin, Tinbergen, and the Evolution of Comparative Cognition
Sara Shettleworth

29. Comparative Evolutionary Psychology; a United Discipline for the Study of Evolved Traits
Jennifer Vonk and Todd Shackelford

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

Edited by Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Jennifer Vonk, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Oakland University, and Director, Evolutionary Psychology Lab, Oakland University.

Contributors:

Kristen Andrews
Department of Philosophy
York University
Toronto, Canada

Michael Beran
Department of Psychology
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Christophe Boesch
Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany

Joseph Boomer
Department of Psychology
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Erika Cartmill
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Dorothy Cheney
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nicola Clayton
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Reginald B. Cocroft
Biological Sciences
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

Mariana V. C. Coutinho
Department of Psychology
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Jonathan Crystal
Department of Psychology
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Robin Dunbar
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
Oxford University
Oxford, UK

Nathan Emery
Department of Animal Behaviour
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Miranda Feeney
Department of Psychology
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Lydia Hopper
Department of Psychology
Durham University
Durham, UK

Bailey House
Department of Anthropology
University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Ludwig Huber
Department of Neurobiology and Cognition
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Kelly Jaakkola
Department of Psychology
Dolphin Research Center
Boston College
Boston, Massachusetts

Keith Jensen
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London UK
London, UK

Heidi Lyn
Department of Psychology
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Dario Maestripieri
Department of Comparative Human Development
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Jennifer Mather
Department of Psychology
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Canada

Alicia P. Melis
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany

Alex Mesoudi
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London UK
London, UK

Adam Miklosi
Department of Ethology
Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest, Hungary

Irene Pepperberg
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Cambridge, UK

Caroline R. Raby

Ljiljana Radenovic
Department of Philosophy
York University
Toronto, Canada

William Roberts
Department of Psychology
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Laurie Santos
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Agnes Scott

Aaron Sell
Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

Robert Seyfarth
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Todd Shackelford
Department of Psychology
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan

Mark Sheskin
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Sara Shettleworth
Department of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Joan Silk
Department of Anthropology
University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

David Smith

Francys Subiaul
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

Laura E. Sullivan-Beckers
Biological Sciences
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

A.J. Sutcliffe
Manchester Business School
Manchester, UK

József Topál
Hungary

Jayden van Horik
School of Biological & Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London, UK
London, UK

Jennifer Vonk
Department of Psychology
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Felix Warneken
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Andrew Whiten
Department of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
St. Andrews, Scotland, UK

Anna Wilkinson
Department of Cognitive Biology
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Klaus Zuberbuhler
Department of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
St. Andrews, Scotland, UK