I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY:
CORE ISSUES AND APPROACHES
1. Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development:
An Emerging Synthesis
3
DAVID F. BJORKLUND and BRUCE J. ELLIS
2. Ontogeny and Evolution of the Social Child 19
MARK V. FLINN and CAROL V. WARD
3. The Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Evolution
of Human Cognition: Evidence from Enculturated,
Juvenile Great Apes
45
DAVID F. BJORKLUND and JUSTIN S. ROSENBERG
4. Early Stress: Perspectives from Developmental
Evolutionary Ecology
76
JAMES S. CHISHOLM, VICTORIA K. BURBANK, DAVID A. COALL,
and FRANK GEMMITI
5. Developmental Behavioral Genetics
and Evolutionary Psychology: Tying the Theoretical
and Empirical Threads
108
NANCY L. SEGAL and ELIZABETH M. HILL

II. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
6. Differential Susceptibility to Rearing Influence:
An Evolutionary Hypothesis and Some Evidence
139
JAY BELSKY
7. Determinants of Pubertal Timing:
An Evolutionary Developmental Approach
164
BRUCE J. ELLIS
8. Some Functional Aspects of Human Adolescence 189
GLENN E. WEISFELD and HEATHER C. JANISSE
9. Sex Differences in Competitive and Aggressive Behavior:
A View from Sexual Selection Theory
219
ANTHONY D. PELLEGRINI and JOHN ARCHER
10. Social Behavior and Personality Development:
The Role of Experiences with Siblings and with Peers
245
JUDITH RICH HARRIS
11. Play: Types and Functions in Human Development 271
PETER K. SMITH
12. Evolutionary Origins and Ontogenetic Development
of Incest Avoidance
292
IRWIN SILVERMAN and IRENE BEVC
III. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
13. Infant Perception and Cognition:
An Evolutionary Perspective on Early Learning
317
DAVID H. RAKISON
14. Evolution and Development of Human Memory Systems 354
KATHERINE NELSON
15. Language Evolution and Human Development 383
BRIAN MACWHINNEY
16. The Evolutionary History of an Illusion: Religious Causal
Beliefs in Children and Adults
411
JESSE M. BERING
17. Cognitive Development and the Understanding
of Animal Behavior
438
H. CLARK BARRETT

18. The Empathizing System: A Revision of the 1994 Model
of the Mindreading System
468
SIMON BARON-COHEN
19. Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning 493
DAVID C. GEARY