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On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several best-selling books, fueled partly by the fact that the young men had resorted to cannibalism to survive. Matt Rossano examines this story from an evolutionary perspective, weaving together findings and ideas from anthropology, psychology, religion, and cognitive science. During their ordeal, these young men broke "civilized" taboos to fend off starvation and abandoned "civilized" modes of thinking to maintain social unity and individual sanity. Through the power of ritual, the survivors were able to endure severe emotional and physical hardship. Rossano ties their story to our story, seeing in the mortal rituals of this struggle for survival a reflection of what it means to be human.

Evolutionary psychology. --- Behavior evolution. --- Taboo. --- Airplane crash survival.

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'Evolution's Empress' identifies women as active agents within the evolutionary process. Chapters focus on topics as diverse as female social interactions, mate competition and mating strategies, motherhood, women's health, sex differences in communication and motivation, sex discrimination, and women in literature. The volume editors bring together a diverse range of perspectives to demonstrate ways in which evolutionary approaches to human behaviour have thus far been too limited.

Women --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Human evolution. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Psychology --- Human evolution --- Sex (Psychology) --- Psychology. --- Origin --- Mental health

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Evolution. Phylogeny --- Developmental psychology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Cooperation. --- Evolution (Biologie) --- Psychologie évolutionniste. --- Coopération --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Psychologie évolutionniste. --- Coopération

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The debate between theist and atheist is an old one and has recently become a highly publicized one. There are some well known proponents of arguments on both sides. To provide a different perspective this book takes a psychoanalytically based evolutionary view, presenting an entirely original theoretical concept.  It introduces an epigenetic component to the discussion of God/no God within the context of evolutionary processes at the point where a thinking brain appears -- a cerebral cortex characteristic of homosapien. Therefore, it joins evolutionary phenomena with psychological realities for survival and safety, for empowerment and the absence of disempowerment. Research is cited to show that such instinctive survival behavior involves several prototypical behavioral categories relevant to all organisms from amoeba to man.             Freud, Darwin, Gould, and the major historical figures of the God/no God debate are included throughout, and the point is made that environmental conditions can produce biological effects and this is the essence of the proposed epigenetical context of the debate. Therefore, this volume concerns itself with exploring the question of whether there is a God-gene or whether God is discovered epigentically in a psycho/evolutionary context.  In either case, this book does not argue for the existence or non-existence of God. Rather, it introduces a new dimension to the debate − a psycho/evolutionary one. .

Applied psychology. --- Developmental psychology. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- God -- Proof. --- Philosophy (General). --- Evolutionary psychology --- God --- Psychiatry --- Social Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychotherapy --- Psychology --- Proof --- Genetic psychology. --- God. --- Psychology. --- Philosophy and science. --- Psychotherapy. --- Counseling. --- Psychotherapy and Counseling. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Developmental Psychology. --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Human genetics --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Life cycle, Human --- Science and philosophy --- Counselling --- Helping behavior --- Psychology, Applied --- Clinical sociology --- Interviewing --- Personal coaching --- Social case work --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Mental health counseling --- Treatment

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The phylontogenic theory proposes an original understanding of nose, sinus and midface formation and development by looking back in evolution for the first traces of the olfactory organ and then tracing its successive phyletic transformations to become part of the respiratory apparatus and finally the central point of human facial anatomy. Von Baer’s, Darwin’s, Haeckel’s, Garstang’s, Gould’s and Buss’ explorations of parallels between phylogeny and ontogeny help to trace the nose and midface story. The paradigm of existing parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny proves useful both in seeking to understand the holoprosencephalic spectrum of facial malformations (which represent radically different pathways of facial development after the life’s tape has been started to run again) and in formulating hypotheses on chordate to vertebrate evolution.  The phylontogenic theory leads to new medical hypotheses on nose and sinus diseases and opens the field of evolution and development-based medicine.

Head -- Growth and development. --- Head -- Growth. --- Human evolution. --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Otorhinolaryngology --- Head --- Growth. --- Medicine. --- Human anatomy. --- Otorhinolaryngology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Anatomy. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Figure drawing --- Skull --- Origin --- Anatomy, Human --- Anatomy --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Human body --- Ear, nose, and throat diseases --- ENT diseases