The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions is written by Laith Al-Shawaf and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197544754 (ISBN 10) and 9780197544754 (ISBN 13).

In this Handbook, Laith Al-Shawaf and Todd K. Shackelford have gathered a group of leading scholars in the field to present a centralized resource for researchers and students wishing to understand emotions from an evolutionary perspective. Experts from a number of different disciplines, including psychology, biology, anthropology, psychiatry, and others, tackle a variety of "how" (proximate) and "why" (ultimate) questions about the function of emotions in humans and nonhuman animals, how emotions work, and their place in human life. Comprehensive and integrative in nature, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars from a diversity of fields wishing to build upon their theoretical and empirical understanding of the emotions.