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How do evolutionary psychologists use natural selection to explain behavior tendencies?

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How do evolutionary psychologists use natural selection to explain behavior tendencies?

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Evolutionary psychologists seek to understand how natural selection has shaped our traits and behavior tendencies. The principle of natural selection states that variations increasing the odds of reproducing and surviving are most likely to be passed on to future generations. Some variations arise from mutations, others from new gene combinations at conception. Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution has for a long time been an organizing principle in biology, anticipated the contemporary application of evolutionary principles in psychology. Humans share a genetic legacy and are predisposed to behave in ways that promoted our ancestors' surviving and reproducing. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is an organizing principle in biology.

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Evolutionary psychologist say that the genders are more alike than different, but critics argue that cultural and social practices, like the difference between individualism and collectivism, can influence how each gender is represented, as well as how they're treated.

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we have faced differing adaptive challenges in behaviors related to reproduction

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Cultural and Social expectations shape gender differences

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A change that occurs due to random error in gene replication.

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Worries about the social consequences and what it suggests

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The principle that inherited traits that lead to increased reproduction and survival will be passed on the succeeding generations over those that do not.

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It tends to start with an effect and work backwards to propose an explanation

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What are the key criticisms of evolutionary psychology?

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What are the key criticisms of evolutionary psychology?

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Gender differences in attitudes extend to differences in behavior.

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Using the principles of natural selection to study the evolution of behavior and the mind.

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Definition: (in psychology) the biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female
The biological way of differentiating between male and female genders.

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How might an evolutionary psychologist explain gender differences in mating preferences?

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How might an evolutionary psychologist explain gender differences in mating preferences?