CRI386H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, Barter
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1) has to say more than that human subjects have mental capacities/have evolved / result of evolution. General psychological capacities are products of evolution. 2) sociobiology even tho there appears to be cultural variation to some degree, much of human behaviour is fundamentally akin to instinctive behaviour. Specific behavioural patterns are clicking off of biological. Human beings have developed through evolution cognitively to have domain specific capacities result of evolution. There are certain orientations/propensities/capacities that are the. Range of specific behavioural domains like mating or shelter construction. Provide psychological infrastructure that is core part of human nature. You can detect specific areas where evolution has influenced it. Can"t understand crimes w/out understanding certain domain specific forms of orientations to behaviour. Response to crimes might require evolutionary psychology too. Allows responses to crime to be theorized as evolutionary products normal. Discussion in evolutionary psychology often turns on questions of sex & gender.
