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| - One area of evolutionary psychology is Evolutionary Esthetics. We can ask: to what extent are human esthetics a function of our genes? An important task for any sexually reproducing species is to make sure that boy meets girl. Do human genes tend to provide humans with an innate tendency to enjoy the sight of the opposite sex? Steven Pinker wrote in his book The blank slate: From "Darwinian aesthetics: sexual selection and the biology of beauty" in Biol. Rev. Camb. Philos. Soc. (2003) volume 78, pages 385-407.
- Evolutionary psychology is the study of how the situation in which a population has evolved has shaped their psychological traits through natural selection. Evolutionary psychology serves to investigate the evolutionary origin of the various specific character traits, behavioral instincts, and preferences. The study of evolutionary psychology may apply to any conscious animal, but most study of evolutionary psychology is focused on humans. The study of evolutionary psychology especially focuses on the psychological traits that have a non-obvious origin.
- Evolutionary psychology (often shorted to evo-psych) is a field of behavioral research that attempts to explain social norms and structures through the lens of biological evolution. On paper, it isn't that unreasonable of a scientific branch, but in reality, it is entirely pseudo-science. Because it applies psychology (which is, itself, a soft science) to long-dead populations that lack total historicity, evo-psych claims are already both unverifiable and unfalsifiable even before the distinction between instinctual vs. learned behavior can be made. As a result, it is loaded with confirmation bias and just about any nonsense can be (and is) paraded around as "science".
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| - One area of evolutionary psychology is Evolutionary Esthetics. We can ask: to what extent are human esthetics a function of our genes? An important task for any sexually reproducing species is to make sure that boy meets girl. Do human genes tend to provide humans with an innate tendency to enjoy the sight of the opposite sex? Steven Pinker wrote in his book The blank slate: "Western societies are good at providing things that people want: clean water, effective medicine, varied and abundant food, rapid transportation and communication. They perfect these goods and services not from benevolence but from self-interest, for the profits to be made in selling them. Perhaps the aesthetics industry also perfected ways of giving people what they like -- art forms that appeal basic human tastes, such as calendar landscapes, popular songs, and Hollywood romances and adventures. So even if an art form matured in the West, it may be not an arbitrary practice spread by a powerful navy but a successful product that engages a universal human aesthetic." From "Darwinian aesthetics: sexual selection and the biology of beauty" in Biol. Rev. Camb. Philos. Soc. (2003) volume 78, pages 385-407. "Although beauty standards may vary between cultures and between times, we show in this review that the underlying selection pressures, which shaped the standards, are the same. Moreover we show that it is not the content of the standards that show evidence of convergence--it is the rules or how we construct beauty ideals that have universalities across cultures. These findings have implications for medical, social and biological sciences." Would it be possible to identifiy genes that contribute to these "aesthetic universalities across cultures"?
- Evolutionary psychology (often shorted to evo-psych) is a field of behavioral research that attempts to explain social norms and structures through the lens of biological evolution. On paper, it isn't that unreasonable of a scientific branch, but in reality, it is entirely pseudo-science. Because it applies psychology (which is, itself, a soft science) to long-dead populations that lack total historicity, evo-psych claims are already both unverifiable and unfalsifiable even before the distinction between instinctual vs. learned behavior can be made. As a result, it is loaded with confirmation bias and just about any nonsense can be (and is) paraded around as "science". Most real-world applications of evolutionary psychology come in the form of official-sounding apologism and justification for essentialism, patriarchy, and the men are just like that argument. Evo-psych claims are often used as an attempt to discredit feminists and other people acting outside of gender norms by suggesting it to be "unnatural" and "unhealthy for the human species as a whole". It is a false appeal to science and appeal to nature. Until a group of children can be raised and observed in a closed environment with exact equal, genderless treatment, just about any claim of gendered behavior being instinctual cannot be verified.
- Evolutionary psychology is the study of how the situation in which a population has evolved has shaped their psychological traits through natural selection. Evolutionary psychology serves to investigate the evolutionary origin of the various specific character traits, behavioral instincts, and preferences. The study of evolutionary psychology may apply to any conscious animal, but most study of evolutionary psychology is focused on humans. The study of evolutionary psychology especially focuses on the psychological traits that have a non-obvious origin. There are 2 different aspects of human evolutionary psychology, which are: 1.
* the study of why all humans have a particular psychological trait 2.
* the study of why some humans have a particular psychological trait while others have a different psychological trait This is a factual article as opposed to fiction or . It describes the current state of the field and explains expected future developments without or fantasy.
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