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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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.
The pleistocene mind: A critical review of evolutionary psychology, and an introduction to intelligent design psychology

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