Eros and Evolution: Prospects for Paso

The psychological evolution of the human species, including especially human sexuality. We thus have a basis for universal propositions on human nature. These in turn connect psychoanalysis & the social sciences (PASO, psychoanalytic social science), where the evolutionary view & the psychoanalytic one reinforce & illuminate each other. From the pioneers, Freud, Rheim, Devereux, LaBarre to the later elaborations in recent decades, PASO has developed apace, with contributions by anthropologists, sociologists, psychoanalysts, political scientists, legal scholars, historians, & many others. The evolutionary story: late Miocene East Africa drying up: some tree-living vegetarian small primates move to a ground savannas, evolve upright posture, bipedal gait, freeing of the hands, hunting economy, omnivorous diet, endocrine change, much larger brain in a larger head, forcing the "premature birth" of the human neonate, thus the most helpless mammal neonate ever. They invent frontal coitus, lose estrus, complicate sex/aggression linkages, develop the peculiar precocious human sexuality. They prolong maternal care, infancy, juvenility; intensify male/female & infant/parent ties. Hunting economy, human speech-language & all the psychological & psychosexual dilemmas that psychoanalysis explores. By author of LOVE AND SEX IN 12 CULTURES, (Psyche Press 1989).Endleman, Robert is the author of 'Eros and Evolution: Prospects for Paso' with ISBN 9780962288524 and ISBN 0962288527.