Explain the primary assertions of evolutionary psychology an

Explain the primary assertions of evolutionary psychology and give at least 5 behavioral examples that you see in your life or othera, that are outcomes of the processes of evolution.

Solution

Evolutionary psychology is the study of psychological adaptations made by the living beings to find the solutions for ancesstral problems in the environment.It is the intergartion of psychology to natural sciences.It is similar to the physolical adaptaions in the human ecology. In this study , main focus is on the pyschlogical changes occured in the human beings during the evolution. It says that natural selection has made many adaptations to psychology.The brain behaves according to the inputs given. So as time goes by the environmental changes forced the brain to take decisions accordingly.

Behavioral examples:

1. Consiousness:

Learning a skill comes out of consiousness. Though we learn dance only few people move their body parts in rythm to the song.

2. Sesantion and perception:

Humans senses are result of evolution.The range over which the animal hears is due to evolutionationary changes and adaptations.

3.Personality traits:

Personality changes include the appearance of the human beings. Those who wants to draw less attntion from all wears light coloyr dresses, while who wants to entrance the people wears bright colors. It laso shows their confidence. This change happened due to the growing needs and less job opputunities.

4. communities:

In old ages people used to live in gropus. Now they started to have nuclear families.

5.Antisocial and criminal behaviour.

Growing population, invention of luxury goods changed the man craving for more. Which made him to become a theif or to rob a bank or to hurt some one . Or it also is influneced the environment he was raised.