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environment of evolutionary adaptedness
Also known as: EEA, environment of evolutionary adaptiveness
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claimEvolutionary psychology posits that understanding the functions of the brain requires understanding the properties of the environment in which the brain evolved, referred to as the 'environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.'
claimHagen argues that the majority of evolutionary psychology research is based on the biological fact that females can become pregnant while males cannot, a condition that also existed in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).
claimPsychological adaptations are specialized for the environment in which an organism evolved, a concept known as the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.
claimHuman hunger for salty and sweet tastes is an intrinsic trait resulting from the value of salt and sugar to human or pre-human ancestors in the environment of evolutionary adaptation.
perspectiveEdward Hagen argues that critics who question whether the brain's Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA) is knowable are engaging in selective scepticism, given that few would deny other organs, such as lungs, evolved in that environment.
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.
claimSome critics argue that researchers know so little about the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA) that explaining specific traits as an adaptation to that environment is highly speculative.
claimJohn Alcock identifies the 'No Time Machine Argument' as a critique of evolutionary psychology, which posits that because researchers cannot travel back to the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA), they cannot determine what was adaptive in that environment.
claimJohn Alcock argues that researchers can be reasonably confident about the conditions of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) because many human behaviors are adaptive in the current environment, suggesting the ancestral environment shared significant similarities with the present.
claimJohn Bowlby first explored the concept of an environment of evolutionary adaptiveness as part of attachment theory.
claimResearchers study existing hunter-gatherer societies to gain clues about how humans lived in the environment of evolutionary adaptation.
claimSocial emotions evolved to motivate social behaviors that were adaptive in the environment of evolutionary adaptation.
claimThe environment of evolutionary adaptiveness is defined as the set of historically recurring selection pressures that formed a specific adaptation, along with the environmental aspects necessary for that adaptation's proper development and functioning.
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claimStephen Jay Gould (1997, 2000) argues that it is impossible to obtain key information required to validate adaptive tales about the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA), such as kinship relations, social structures, group sizes, gender-specific activities, and the roles of religion, symbolizing, and storytelling, because these aspects cannot be traced in fossils.
claimMargie Profet’s work on pregnancy sickness infers the historical function of a trait from its current structure rather than generating a prediction based on a putative problem in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness.
referenceDifferent adaptations have different environments of evolutionary adaptedness (EEAs); for example, language is anchored in the last two million years, while infant attachment reflects a much lengthier evolutionary history.
claimThe human environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA) is defined as the set of environmental conditions encountered by human populations during the Pleistocene, specifically from 1.8 million years ago to 10,000 years ago, when early hominids lived as hunter-gatherers on the savannahs of eastern Africa.
perspectiveAdaptationist explanations are criticized as 'just-so-stories' because functional analysis relies on unverifiable claims regarding the conditions of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).
perspectiveLeda Cosmides and John Tooby argued that natural selection did not endow the human mind with a general conditional reasoning capacity because testing abstract logical rules would not have had adaptive value in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).
claimFunctional analysis in evolutionary psychology predicts the existence of unknown cognitive mechanisms based on evolutionary reasoning about potential adaptive problems in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA), which are then empirically tested.
claimJohn Bowlby coined the term 'environment of evolutionary adaptedness' (EEA) in 1969.
quoteStephen Jay Gould claimed that assertions about an Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) usually cannot be tested in principle but only subjected to speculation.
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claimThe "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" (EEA) is defined in evolutionary paradigms of human health and nutrition as the environment to which human bodies are adapted.
claimThe "evolutionary discordance" or "mismatch" model in human health and nutrition asserts that human bodies are poorly matched to contemporary environments because they reflect adaptations to the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA).