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Article: Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology assumes that operating beneath the surface of historical and cultural variability, the human mind is a system of functionally specialized, developmentally constructed neural information processors that were naturally selected because they solved particular adaptive problems faced during the evolution of the hunter-gatherer ancestors of human beings. Evolutionary psychology assumes a computational theory of mind rooted in the information processing revolution of the 1960s. It also draws on insights from the socio-biology of the 1970s, which describes how "selfish" genes, in benefiting their own replication and that of copies amongst kin ...
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Article: THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY.
Skeptic (Altadena, CA);
March 22, 1999 ;
700+ words
... ... ideas, and many advocates of evolutionary psychology are openly hostile to religion ... will look at some findings of evolutionary psychology from a historical perspective ... assumed. THE RECEIVED HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY According to the current view ...
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