Evolutionary Psychology

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  1. hypothesize
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
    They hypothesize, for example, that humans have inherited special mental capacities for acquiring language, making it nearly automatic, while inheriting no capacity specifically for reading and writing.
  2. psychology
    the science of mental life
    Evolutionary psychology (EP) attempts to explain psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection.
  3. psychologist
    a specialist in the science of mental life
    Modern evolutionary psychologists (see, for example, Confer, Easton, Fleischman, Goetz, Lewis, Perilloux & Buss, 2010; as well as Buss, 2005; Durrant & Ellis, 2003; Pinker, 2002; Tooby & Cosmides, 2005) argue that much of human behavior is generated by psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.
Created on Wed Jun 09 11:34:37 EDT 2010

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