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Evolutionary Forensic Psychology$
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Joshua Duntley and Todd K. Shackelford

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780195325188

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325188.001.0001

Evolutionary Forensic Psychology

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(p. 3 ) 1 Evolutionary Forensic Psychology
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Evolutionary Forensic Psychology
Author(s):

Todd K. Shackelford

Joshua D. Duntley

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325188.003.0001

This chapter focuses on the significance of evolutionary forensic psychology. Several sources of conflict between individuals have been recurrent over human evolutionary history. Understanding the nature of recurrent conflicts between individuals in our evolutionary past can give insight into the form and function of manifest conflicts between people today. The chapter explores some of the most important sources of conflict for our ancestors and discusses their implications for the field of evolutionary forensic psychology.

Keywords:   evolution, evolutionary processes, conflict, evolutionary forensic psychology

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