Evolutionary psychology examines and explains human and non-human psychical traits and functioning by recognizing that they developed by natural selection as adaptive responses to environmental pressures on past generations of the today’s living beings’ ancestors. Insights of evolutionary psychology are utilized in various applicative disciplines, e.g. human mental health, human personal growth, human performance, non-human animals’ wellbeing, and non-human animals’ training etc.
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Header image source: Herculano-Houzel, S. (2012). The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(1), 10661-10668.
