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Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations – that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection
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Although we suffer from many of our ancestors' bad habits, they also evolved a motivational system that continues to reward us when we get it right. This is happiness.
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― The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
― The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
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The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.
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― How the Mind Works
― How the Mind Works
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