Introduction
1 Aims
2 Overview

Essential themes
3 Proximate and ultimate causes
4 Adaptation and selection
5 Nature, nurture, and culture
6 Human uniqueness
7 Reasoning about the past
8 Is cleverness genetic?
9 Psychologies: Theories and methods

Hominin ancestors
10 Hominin and primate relatives
11 Ancestral hominins
12 Bipedalism
13 Early Homo
14 Late Homo
15 Homo floresiensis
16 Who or what is Homo sapiens?
17 How clever were Neanderthals?
18 Behavioural modernity
19 Hominin life history
20 Family structure, pair bonding, and communal breeding

Selection and transmission of traits
21 Genetic inheritance
22 Sexual selection
23 Group selection
24 Exaptation
25 Non-selectionist processes
26 Gene/culture co-evolution
27 Genes and hominin evolution.
28 The heritability of intelligence and cleverness

Contentious theoretical issues
29 Personal and sub-personal explanations
30 Intentionality
31 Mentalism in evolutionary explanation
32 Cognitive science vs behavioural theory
33 Representation
34 Modularity
35 Two systems for controlling behaviour?
36 Recursion
37 The meaning of signs

Comparing ourselves with other primates
38 Differences between ape and human communication
39 Primate gestures and the evolution of language
40 Perspective-taking in non-human primates
41 Social learning in non-human primates
42 Understanding the physical world
43 Pro-social behaviour and cooperation in non-human primates
44 Signing chimpanzees
45 Home-reared chimpanzees
46 Primate intelligence

How did hominins evolve socially?
47 Self-awareness and identity
48 Social learning: Imitation
49 The social brain hypothesis
50 Cooperation
51 Social reciprocity
52 Perspective-taking in hominins
53 Displaced reference and pretend play
54 Self-domestication

The brain
55 Brain size and early development
56 Brain evolution: Structure and function
57 Handedness
58 Mirror neuron system

Learning from archaeology
59 Models in cognitive archaeology
60 What can stone-tools tell us?
61 Fire

Language
62 The evolution of symbols
63 Protolanguage
64 Origins of language: fossil and DNA evidence
65 Origins of language: As communication
66 Origins of language: As faculty.

Becoming complex and clever
67 Evolution of consciousness
68 The social self
69 Memory: Living in time
70 Working memory
71 Meta-cognition
72 Abstraction and analogy
73 Imagination and counterfactual thought
74 Agency: Getting it all together
75 The evolution of reasoning
76 Intelligence vs. applied intelligence
77 Framing behaviour functionally

Putting it all together
78 The evolution of cleverness: Rival accounts.
79 Responding to evolution science
80 Infelicities and stupidity
81 Acting on evolution science

References

Richard Hallam worked as a clinical psychologist, researcher, and lecturer until 2006, mainly in the National Health Service and at University College London and the University of East London. Since then, he has worked independently as a writer, researcher, and therapist.