Parsing human nature
Evolutionary psychology, despite its reductionist approach to religion, offers provocative approaches to questions about human nature--and it's growing in credibility and popularity among some scholars."What we're after is mapping the properties of universal human nature," explains John Tooby, codirector of the Center of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and coeditor of The Adapted Mind.
Using evolutionary theory as a starting-point, the field seeks to explain human behaviors as adaptive traits for the good of the group or accidental by-products of evolutionary changes.
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Thursday, March 11, 2004
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