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What Is Evolutionary Psychology?

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Understanding the human mind/brain mechanisms in evolutionary perspective is the goal of the new scientific discipline called evolutionary psychology (Buss, 2012). Although evolutionary psychology is a fairly new approach, it has been inspired by the theories of biologists dating as far back as 1744. The basic purpose of the approach is to apply the knowledge and principles of evolutionary biology to develop research that leads to a better understanding of human experience and behaviour (Blasi & Cause, 2010; Buss, 2009), using concepts such as succession; in how the more favourable traits and characteristics are selected and passed down through generations, and genetics. However, although this is a popular theory with many people believing
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