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| ] and ] coined the term '''evolutionary psychology''' (EP)) in their 1992 book ''The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture'' as a way to examine the functions of the mind in terms of ] adaptation. They believe that many aspects of human behavior and other cognitive processes can be better understood by determining how different behaviors might have evolved over human history. The main sources of evolutionary psychology are : cognitive psychology, genetics, ethology, anthropology, |
] and ] coined the term '''evolutionary psychology''' (EP)) in their 1992 book ''The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture'' as a way to examine the functions of the mind in terms of ] adaptation. They believe that many aspects of human behavior and other cognitive processes can be better understood by determining how different behaviors might have evolved over human history. The main sources of evolutionary psychology are : ], ], ], ], ], ], etc. | ||
| Some scientists see this as no different from ]'s ] (as described in the 1975 ''Sociobiology: The New Synthesis''), though its proponents insist that it is a distinct discipline. The main difference between the two theories is that evolutionary psychology insists on the <I>mismatch</I> between the time where most of the evolution has taken place and the modern world where we are living : ''Our modern skulls house a stone age mind'' (Tooby & Cosmide, 5<sup>th</sup> principle. | Some scientists see this as no different from ]'s ] (as described in the 1975 ''Sociobiology: The New Synthesis''), though its proponents insist that it is a distinct discipline. The main difference between the two theories is that evolutionary psychology insists on the <I>mismatch</I> between the time where most of the evolution has taken place and the modern world where we are living : ''Our modern skulls house a stone age mind'' (Tooby & Cosmide, 5<sup>th</sup> principle. | ||
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John Tooby and Leda Cosmides coined the term evolutionary psychology (EP)) in their 1992 book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture as a way to examine the functions of the mind in terms of evolutionary adaptation. They believe that many aspects of human behavior and other cognitive processes can be better understood by determining how different behaviors might have evolved over human history. The main sources of evolutionary psychology are : cognitive psychology, genetics, ethology, anthropology, biology, zoology, etc.
Some scientists see this as no different from E. O. Wilson's sociobiology (as described in the 1975 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis), though its proponents insist that it is a distinct discipline. The main difference between the two theories is that evolutionary psychology insists on the mismatch between the time where most of the evolution has taken place and the modern world where we are living : Our modern skulls house a stone age mind (Tooby & Cosmide, 5 principle.
Still others think that the discipline in general, and Cosmides and Tooby in particular, are too quick to generalize and draw conclusions from the very limited data they present. The book The Adapted Mind is notorious for, among other things, using their methods to explain differences in behavior between the sexes.
Between 1992 and 2002 thousands of researchers have published in this field, and the applications of evolutionary psychology range now from sex differences (and sexual competition) to polemology. Some of the most known authors are : Sarah Blaffer Hardy, David Buss, David C. Geary, Geoffrey Miller, Steven Pinker, Robert Wright.
See Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer by Leda Cosmides & John Tooby (the 5 principles),
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, Human Nature Review