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- Feb 2023
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Some of the challenges people face today, however, diverge quite a bit from those faced by their ancestors. Such divergences can lead adaptive psychological mechanisms to “misfire” – to respond in ways that might have been adaptive in the past, but that no longer produce adaptive consequences today.
- Some of the challenges people face today,
- diverge quite a bit from those
- faced by their ancestors.
- Such divergences can ,- lead adaptive psychological mechanisms to “misfire”
- to respond in ways that might have been adaptive in the past,
- but that no longer produce adaptive consequences today.
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Psychological adaptations have been designed over thousands of generations of human evolution. The adaptations humans possess today, then, were designed to operate in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, a composite of the social and physical challenges as they have existed for hundreds of thousands of years
- Psychological adaptations have been designed over thousands of generations of human evolution.
- The adaptations humans possess today, then,
- were designed to operate in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,
- a composite of the social and physical challenges as they have existed for hundreds of thousands of years (Bowlby, 1969; Cosmides & Tooby, 1992).
- As such, they may or may not be well-adapted
- for life in contemporary society
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