A continuación se detallan los documentos de lectura obligatoria para la preparación de los Temas y las  Actividades Prácticas/Tareas (ver Metodología y Plan de Trabajo).

TEMA 1:  Historia, Concepto y Método

Borgerhoff Mulder, M y Schacht, R. (2012): Human Behavioural Ecology. The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. 1-10. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0003671.pub2

Hames, R. (2001): Human Behavioral Ecology. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 6946-6951. Elsevier.

TEMA 2: Dieta, Obtención de Alimentos y Ritmos Biológicos

Huebbe, P. y Rimbach, G. (2017): Evolution of Human Apolipoprotein E (APOE) Isoforms: Gene Structure, Protein Function and Interaction with Dietary Factors. Ageing Research Reviews 37, 146-161.

Leonard, W.R, Snodgrass, J.J. y Robertson, M.L. (2007): Effects of brain evolution on human nutrition and metabolism. Annual Review of Nutrition 27, 311-327.

Lieberman, L.S. (2006): Evolutionary and anthropological perspectives on optimal foraging in obesogenic environments. Appetite 47, 3-9.

Milton, K. (2006): Diet and Primate Evolution. En Scientific American 16, 2(22-29).

Roenneberg, T. y Merrow, M. (2016): The Circadian Clock and Human Health. Current Biology 26, 432–443.

TEMA 3: Historia Vital (Life History): La Estrategia Vital Humana

Austad, S.N. y Finch, C.E. (2017): Human Life History Evolution: New Perspectives on Body and Brain Growth. En On Human Nature. Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion (Cap 14). Tibayrenc, M. y Ayala, F.J. (Eds). Elsevier Inc.

Kuzawa; Ch, W. (2010): Beyond Feast–Famine: Brain Evolution, Human Life History, and the Metabolic Syndrome. En Human Evolutionary Biology, Muehlenbein, M.P. (Ed.). Capítulo 30. Cambridge University Press.

Mace, R. (2000): Evolutionary ecology of human life history. Animal Behavior 59, 1-10.

TEMA 4: Sistemas de Apareamiento y Selección Sexual. La Familia Humana: Conducta Parental- Filial y sus Conflictos 

Gardner, A., Griffin, A.S. y West, S.A. (2010): Altruism and Cooperation. En Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. Westneat, D.F. y Fox, Ch. W. (Eds). Oxford University Press.

Hill, A.K., Bailey, D.H. y Puts, D.A. (2017): Gorillas in Our Midst? Human Sexual Dimorphism and Contest Competition in Men. En On Human Nature. Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion (Cap 15). Tibayrenc, M. y Ayala, F.J. (Eds). Elsevier Inc.

Sefcek, J.A., Barbara, MA., Brumbach, H., Geneva Vasquez, MA, y Miller, G.F. (2007): The Evolutionary Psychology of Human Mate Choice: how Ecology, Genes, Fertility and Fashion Influence Mating Strategies. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 18:2-3, 125-182, DOI: 10.1300/J056v18n02_05 (PDF)

Thornhill, R. y Gangestad, S.W. (2008): The Evolution of Human Mating Systems and Parental Care. En The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality. (Cap. 4). Oxford University Press.

Workman, L. y Reader W. (2014): The Evolutionary Psychology of Social Behaviour – Kin Relationships and Conflict. Capítulo 7 de Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction (3ª ed.). Cambridge University Press

TEMA 5: Los Grupos Sociales: Cooperación y Conflicto

Crespi, B., y Summers, K. (2014): Inclusive Fitness Theory for the Evolution of Religion. Animal Behaviour 92, 313-323

Nowak, M.A. y Sigmund, K. (2005): Evolution of indirect reciprocity. Nature 437, 1291-1298.

Workman, L. y Reader W. (2014): The evolutionary psychology of social behaviour – reciprocity and group behaviour. Capítulo 8 de Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction (3ª ed.). Cambridge University Press.

ACTIVIDAD PRÁCTICA/TAREA 1: El Dilema del Prisionero

Heuer L, Orland A. (2019): Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: an experimental comparison between pure and mixed strategies. R. Soc. open sci., 6: 182142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.182142

TEMA 6: La Comunicación, el Lenguaje y el Razonamiento: Una Visión Evolucionista

Stevens, M. (2013): Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution. Capítulos 5, 6, 7 y 8. Oxford University Press.

Workman, L. y Reader W. (2014): The Evolution of Language. Capítulo 10 de Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction (3ª ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Workman, L. y Reader W. (2014): Evolution, Thought and Cognition. Capítulo 9 de Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction (3ª ed.). Cambridge University Press.

TEMA 7: Psicopatología Evolucionista

Troisi, A.T. (2008): Psychopathology and Mental Illness. En Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, Crawford, Ch. y D. Krebs (eds) Capítulo 24. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. New York.

Wenegrat, B. (2010): Evolutionary Psychiatry: Mental Disorders and Behavioral Evolution. En Human Evolutionary Biology, Muehlenbein, M.P. (Ed.). Capítulo 32. Cambridge University Press.

ACTIVIDAD PRÁCTICA/TAREA 2. Selección Sexual en Humanos Basada en Claves/Señales

Andrews, T. M., Lukaszewski, A. W., Simmons, Z. L., y Bleske-Recheck, A. (2017): Cue-based estimates of reproductive value explain women’s body attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 461–467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.04.002.