... tackling two basic principles of Evolutionary psychology; our minds have different neural circuits that have specified purposes to solve different adaptive problems and many modern social problems arise from the fact our minds are adapted for the Stone Age. Evolutionary Psychology is an approach that allows us to develop predictions in all fields of psychology. It is based on the theory that our behaviour is influenced by biological evolution. This stands against the behaviourist approach that believes that when we are born, our minds are blank canvases on which our experiences become imprinted and these imprints determine our behaviour (also known as the standard social science model [SSSM]). Evolutionary Psychology looks through the eye of natural selection and claims that traits in behaviour are heritable if they affect the extent to which an individual can reproduce. In order to fully understand the main ideas in EP, a very different outlook on ...

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