Material World - 29/01/2009

Quentin Cooper explores the latest developments in evolutionary psychology and social Darwinism and asks how it can help policy-makers in both private and public sector. These disciplines are regularly applied to understanding how animals evolved their physical forms, but it is now also being applied to understanding the development of the human mind and psychology. In the last 20 years the subject has penetrated virtually every existing branch of psychology, including social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology, as well as influencing various other social science disciplines such as anthropology, economics and political science.