Robert Wright's 1994 introduction to evolutionary psychology — using Charles Darwin's life as a case study — the most widely read popular account of evolutionary psychology and its implications for human behavior.
Creates the accessible evolutionary psychology synthesis — The Moral Animal uses Darwin's life (his courtship strategy, his jealousy, his anxiety about publishing) as a lens through which to explain evolutionary psychology's claims about human nature; this biographical-through-evolutionary method makes abstract evolutionary psychology concrete.
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