evolutionary psychology

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evolutionary psychology

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The branch of psychology in which aspects of brain structure, cognition, and behavior are interpreted as evolutionary adaptations to the physical or social environment.
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Rubin begins at the beginning, with an account of hunter-gatherer life in the human "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" (EEA).
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Their focus then is on the selection pressures that caused the design of an adaptation, like the African savanna, which is referred to as the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. A favorite saying of EP is that our modern skulls house a stone aged mind.
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Evolution solved problems that were common in the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" of the Stone Age hunter-gatherer situation, not of the modem high technology situation (Cosmides and Tooby, 1997).
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