David Sloan Wilson: Evolutionary Psychology and the Public Me...
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- Rgarns on 2009-06-25 - Tags evolutionary-psychology
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Sociobiology is the study of social behavior from an evolutionary perspective.
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Evolutionary psychology is the study of psychology from an evolutionary perspective.
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Everything that evolves requires two explanations, one based on survival and reproduction (ultimate causation) and one based on the mechanisms that cause individuals to behave in a mechanistic sense (proximate causation).
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To proceed with their agenda, evolutionary psychologists needed to identify the actual proximate mechanisms that evolved by genetic evolution to motivate human behavior.
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the mind as a collection of hundreds of special-purpose modules that evolved to solve specific problems in the EEA
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EEA was limited to the range of environments occupied by humans during their evolution as a species
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universal human nature
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dismissed open-ended, domain-general psychological processes as a theoretical impossibility
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nothing to say about culture as an open-ended evolutionary process
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prestige bias
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conformity bias
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Strong reciprocity
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