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evolutionary psychology, the study of behaviour, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychologists presume all human behaviours reflect the influence of physical and psychological predispositions that helped human ancestors survive and reproduce.
Feb 8, 2008 · What distinguishes evolutionary psychologists from many cognitive psychologists is the proposal that the relevant internal mechanisms are adaptations—products of natural selection—that helped our ancestors get around the world, survive and reproduce.
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.
Jan 1, 2014 · Evolutionary biologists characterize adaptations along the following lines: “A trait, or integrated suite of traits, that increases the fitness of its possessor is called an adaptation and is said to be adaptive” (Freeman and Herron 2008, 364).
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Adaptationism. Key Concepts and Arguments. Adaptation and Adaptivity. Functional Analysis. The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness. Domain-specificity and Modularity. Human Nature. Examples of Empirical Research. Problems and Objections. Genetic Determinism. Moral and Societal Issues. Untestability and Story Telling. Psychological Inadequacy.
A psychological adaptation is a functional, cognitive or behavioral trait that benefits an organism in its environment. Psychological adaptations fall under the scope of evolved psychological mechanisms (EPMs), [2] however, EPMs refer to a less restricted set.
Positive natural selection, or the tendency of beneficial traits to increase in prevalence ( frequency) in a population, is the driving force behind adaptive evolution. For a...
