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6 days ago · Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that seeks to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, and language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
4 days ago · The rate limits can be used to probe questions in various evolutionary biology and ecology settings. They apply, for instance, to trait dynamics within or across species or to the evolution of ...
2 days ago · What if evolution promoted aspects other than intellectual capability? Accepting this paradox might mean acknowledging that humans have undergone both a gradual evolutionary process, as Darwin suggested, and a rapid developmental leap, as indicated by archaeological findings—without any genetic change in the brain.
4 days ago · Muhammad Ali once said, “I always felt pressure before a big fight, because what was happening was real.” As this quote attests, sport is real, unscripted, with the potential for psychological, and often physical, harm. The response to stress, commonly described as “flight or fight,” is an evolutionary adaptation to dangerous situations.
3 days ago · Most evolutionary psychologists agree that most of human psychological mechanisms were adapted to the reproductive issues in the Pleistocene environments - beginning 2.6 million years ago and ending 12,000 years ago. ¹ These issues include growth, differentiation, mating, relationships and maintenance.
4 days ago · The video delves into evolutionary psychology, emphasizing the importance of understanding behavior through an evolutionary lens. It discusses key principles of evolutionary theory, explores biological functions, and examines human behavior in relation to adaptation and reproduction.
5 days ago · Likewise, cultural-evolutionary theory in general (e.g., Henrich, 2016) and the “ collective brain” hypothesis (Muthukrishna & Henrich, 2016) in particular propose that in our cultural species, many of the cognitive features we are able to measure in fact reflect adaptations to a particular cultural environment (the eponymous collective brain).
