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Evolutionary psychology is a field of inquiry that seeks to explain human behavior by applying evolutionary principles and Darwinian reasoning to psychological adaptations, as described in [1], [2], and [3]. This relationship is further evidenced by the academic literature linking the two concepts in [4] and the theoretical claim that human behavior is the output of evolved psychological mechanisms [5].
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Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 4 facts
referenceEvolutionary psychology, in its broad sense, attempts to adopt an evolutionary perspective on human behavior and psychology by applying Darwinian reasoning to behavioral, cognitive, social, or cultural characteristics of humans.
claimEvolutionary psychology is defined as a general field of inquiry that attempts to adopt an evolutionary perspective on human behavior by supplementing psychology with the central tenets of evolutionary biology.
claimThe purpose of Evolutionary Psychology is to discover and explain cognitive mechanisms that guide current human behavior by identifying them as selected solutions to recurrent adaptive problems prevalent in the evolutionary environment of ancestors.
referenceThe book 'Sense or Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior' (2002) by Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown serves as an introduction to sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, memetics, and gene-culture coevolution.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimEvolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.