Evolutionary psychology is not at all about "what is best for the species." Evolution, in fact, doesn't work that way at all. Along with other evolutionary processes, ...

The field of evolutionary psychology is no stranger to critiques, given its central idea: that human behaviors can be explained in evolutionary terms and that the core units governing our actions ...

Evolutionary psychology aims to explain human behavior in evolutionary terms. Some human characteristics evolved because they increased the likelihood of survival in the environment.

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as ...

Women are the reason men do everything. Most neurosurgeons are men and most kindergarten teachers are women. Beautiful people have more daughters. These are a few of the conclusions from a new ...

Buller doesn't reject evolutionary studies of the mind per se. Rather, he contends that "Evolutionary Psychology," a set of assumptions about the nature and evolution of the human mind, has largely ...

In Gould's critique of Evolutionary Psychology, he said, "I don't think that males are willing to rear babies only because clever females beguile us.

This article was originally published with the title “ Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 300 No. 1 (January 2009) doi:10.1038 ...

A recent bibliometric analysis conducted by Andrea Zagaria (2024) compared the prevalence of evolutionary psychology and the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) concluding that SSSM is more ...