Evolutionary psychology aims to understand and describe human behaviour in the light of past and continuing selection and adaption. Though a young and developing discipline, the past couple of decades has seen enormous progress. As the science matures, its scope will inevitably begin to broaden towards tackling contemporary issues in human society. Applied Evolutionary Psychology is the first book to overtly consider how basic evolutionary thinking is
being applied to a wide range of special social, economic, and technical problems. It draws together a collection of renowned academics from a very disparate set of fields, whose common interest lies in using
evolutionary thinking to inform their research.