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Evolutionary psychology is fundamentally linked to hunter-gatherers because it posits that human psychological mechanisms evolved as adaptations to the specific adaptive problems faced by our ancestors during the Pleistocene [1]. Researchers in this field define the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA) based on the premise that early humans lived as hunter-gatherers in small tribes [2]. Furthermore, the discipline emphasizes that the human mind is shaped by the 99% of our evolutionary history spent as hunter-gatherers rather than the recent period of agricultural development [3].
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claimEvolutionary Psychology focuses on adaptations that evolved in response to characteristically human adaptive problems faced by hunter-gatherers during the Pleistocene, such as choosing a mate, recognizing emotional expressions, acquiring language, distinguishing kin, detecting cheaters, and remembering the location of edible plants.
claimEvolutionary psychologists argue that human psychological mechanisms are adapted to Pleistocene environments because the human species spent over 99% of its evolutionary history as hunter-gatherers in those conditions, rather than the brief period since the advent of agriculture or industrialization.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimEvolutionary psychologists argue that they possess knowledge about the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA), specifically that the ancestors of present-day humans were hunter-gatherers who generally lived in small tribes.