Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology – Wikipedia

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve. In this framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by …

Evolutionary psychology | Britannica

Evolutionary psychology , which emerged in the late 1980s, is a synthesis of developments in several different fields, including ethology, cognitive psychology , evolutionary biology, anthropology, and social psychology . At the base of evolutionary psychology is Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.