evolutionary psychology
noun
: the study of human cognition and behavior with respect to their evolutionary origins
evolutionary psychologist
noun
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Casting necessitates finding actors willing to put in months of training and do the research required by the filmmakers, specifically reading books on philosophy and evolutionary psychology.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
But this is a just-so story without sufficient evidentiary support, despite its pervasiveness in disciplines like evolutionary psychology.
—Sarah Lacy, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
For fields like population genetics, evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, the gene is a unit of calculation in the exact sense formulated by Johannsen in 1909.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2013
He's generally argued that our closest relatives are smarter than people had previously believed, with major implications for evolutionary psychology.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2010
Carole Jahme has a master's degree in evolutionary psychology and is the author of Beauty and the Beast: Woman, Ape and Evolution.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
Her theory draws on evolutionary psychology, which explains human behavior in the context of the adaptations that helped our forebears survive and pass on their genes in the ancestral environment.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
Our research explores this question through the lens of evolutionary psychology.
—Benjamin Kaveladze, The Conversation, 12 July 2022
So while technological possibility is a core pillar of growth, so too is future literacy, evolutionary psychology, the prevailing culture and complex economics.
—Aarron Spinley, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
But this is a just-so story without sufficient evidentiary support, despite its pervasiveness in disciplines like evolutionary psychology.
—Sarah Lacy, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
For fields like population genetics, evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, the gene is a unit of calculation in the exact sense formulated by Johannsen in 1909.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2013
He's generally argued that our closest relatives are smarter than people had previously believed, with major implications for evolutionary psychology.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2010
Carole Jahme has a master's degree in evolutionary psychology and is the author of Beauty and the Beast: Woman, Ape and Evolution.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2011
Her theory draws on evolutionary psychology, which explains human behavior in the context of the adaptations that helped our forebears survive and pass on their genes in the ancestral environment.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
Our research explores this question through the lens of evolutionary psychology.
—Benjamin Kaveladze, The Conversation, 12 July 2022
So while technological possibility is a core pillar of growth, so too is future literacy, evolutionary psychology, the prevailing culture and complex economics.
—Aarron Spinley, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
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