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Evolutionary psychology is related to behavior because it examines how specialized psychological mechanisms combine to produce manifest behavior [1] and focuses on the ultimate evolutionary causality of these behaviors [2], while also facing criticism regarding its ability to explain the influence of genes on individual behavior [3].
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claimEvolutionary psychology focuses on the study of distal or ultimate causality, specifically the evolution of psychological adaptations, rather than proximate analyses of behavior.
claimHuman psychology comprises many specialized mechanisms, each sensitive to different classes of information or inputs, which combine to produce manifest behavior.
claimCritics often characterize evolutionary psychology as a form of genetic reductionism and genetic determinism, arguing that the field fails to address the complexity of individual development and experience or explain the influence of genes on behavior in individual cases.