Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology
Among Charles Darwin’s lasting legacies is our knowledge that the human mind evolved by some adaptive process.
A major, widely discussed branch of evolutionary psychology—Pop EP—holds that the human brain has many specialized mechanisms that evolved to solve the adaptive problems of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
The author and several other scholars suggest that some assumptions of Pop EP are flawed: that we can know the psychology ...
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