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Evolutionary psychology is fundamentally linked to genes as it posits that the human psyche and physiology are products of genetic information transmitted across generations [1]. Furthermore, the field views genes as the primary source of developmental instructions, with the environment serving only as a trigger for these encoded traits [2], a perspective that leads critics to label the discipline as a form of genetic determinism [3].
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claimEvolutionary psychologists view the human psyche and physiology as genetic products, assuming that genes contain the information for the development and control of the organism and that this information is transmitted across generations.
claimEvolutionary psychologists consider the environment to be an activator or trigger for the developmental instructions encoded in genes, rather than a primary driver of development.
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.