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Andrews, P.W., & Thomson, J.A. (2009). The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems. Psychological Review, 116(3), 620-654. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016242

Apicella, C.L., & Barrett, H.C. (2016). Cross-cultural evolutionary psychology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.08.015

Baron-Cohen, S. (Ed.) (1997). The maladapted mind: Classical readings in evolutionary psychopathology. Taylor & Francis.

Brenner, S.L., Jones, J.P., Rutanen-Whaley, R.H., Parker, W., Flinn, M.V., & Muehlenbein, M.P. (2015). Evolutionary mismatch and chronic psychological stress. Journal of Evolutionary Medicine, 3, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.4303/jem/235885

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Brüne, M. (2008). Evolutionary psychiatry: The origins of psychopathology. Oxford University Press.

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Buss, D.M. (2009). The great struggles of life: Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary psychology. American Psychologist, 64(2), 140-148. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013207

Buss, D.M. (Ed.) (2015). The handbook of evolutionary psychology (2nd ed.). Wiley.

Buss, D.M. (2019). Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind. Routledge.

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Crawford, C., & Krebs, D.L. (Eds.) (2013). Handbook of evolutionary psychology. Psycholog Press.

Crawford, C., & Salmon, C. (2002). Psychopathology or adaptation? Genetic and evolutionary perspectives on individual differences and psychopathology. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 23(Suppl. 4), 39-45.

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Del Giudice, M. (2018). Evolutionary psychopathology: A unified approach. Oxford University Press.

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Edward, L., & Kennair, O. (2014). Evolutionary psychopathology and life history: A clinician’s perspective. An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory, 25, 346-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2014.915707

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Gilbert, P. (2016). Depression: The evolution of powerlessness. Guilford Press.

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Gilbert, P., & Bailey, B. (Eds.). Genes on the couch: Explorations in evolutionary psychotherapy. Brunner-Routledge.

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Nesse, R.M. (2019). Good reasons for bad feelings: Insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry. Penguin Random House.

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Nettle, D. (2009). An evolutionary model of low mood states. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 257(1), 100-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.033 

Nettle, D., & Bateson, M. (2012). The evolutionary origins of mood and its disorders. Current Biology, 22(17), 712-721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.020

Price, J.S. (2000). Subordination, self-esteem, and depression. In L. Sloman & P. Gilbert (Eds.), Subordination and defeat: An evolutionary approach to mood disorders and their therapy (pp. 165-180). Erlbaum.

Price, J.S. (2003). Evolutionary aspects of anxiety disorders. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 5(3), 223-236.

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