All about Evolutionary Psychology and its functions

All about Evolutionary Psychology and its functions Evolutionary Psychology is the behavior that is understood in light of human and primate evolutionary history. Evolutionary Psychology proposes many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations... More

All about Evolutionary Psychology and its functions Evolutionary Psychology is the behavior that is understood in light of human and primate evolutionary history. Evolutionary Psychology proposes many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations or evolved psychological mechanisms (EPMs). Evolved Psychological Mechanism: This mechanism is universal in nature. Uncontroversial EPM has vision, memory, hearing and motor control. There are many examples that include differences in male and female mating preference and strategies, capture bonding, incest avoidance mechanisms and cheater detection mechanisms. Source of Evolutionary Psychology: The main sources of evolutionary psychology are cognitive psychology, genetics, ethology, anthropology, biology, and zoology. The term evolutionary psychology was probably coined by Ghiselin in his 1973 article in Science. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby popularized the term in their highly influential 1992 book The Adapted Mind: Evolutio Less