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Aug 2011
46m 2s

A New Comparative Psychology

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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In their classic 1969 paper Hodos and Campbell bemoaned the absence of appropriate evolutionary theory in comparative psychology. In this talk I will argue that despite the advent of Evolutionary Psychology the situation has changed only a little today. In fact, some Evolutionary Psychologists go so far as to argue that comparative analyses are of little imp ... Show More
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