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'''Evolutionary psychology''' is an approach to [[psychology]] that attempts to explain psychological traits using the [[Theory of Evolution]], by considering them as adaptations to their [[environment]], i.e., as the functional products of [[natural selection]]. The purpose of this approach is to bring the functional way of thinking about [[biology | biological]] mechanisms such as the [[heart]] or the immune system, into the field of psychology, and to approach psychological mechanisms.

'''Evolutionary psychology''' is an approach to [[psychology]] that attempts to explain psychological traits using the [[Theory of Evolution]], by considering them as adaptations to their [[environment]], i.e., as the functional products of [[natural selection]]. The purpose of this approach is to bring the functional way of thinking about [[biology|biological]] mechanisms such as the [[heart]] or the immune system, into the field of psychology, and to approach psychological mechanisms.

Evolutionary psychology is not an area of study, such as [[memory]] or [[attention]] but instead is a way of viewing psychology and framing research. Research has focused on a diverse range of topics from facial recognition to mate to choice to [[altruism]]. It is one of the youngest paradigms in psychology formalizing in the 1980s. Only within the last ten years have universities created specific departments for evolutionary psychology and conferred specific degrees in the field.  

Evolutionary psychology is not an area of study, such as [[memory]] or [[attention]] but instead is a way of viewing psychology and framing research. Research has focused on a diverse range of topics from facial recognition to mate to choice to [[altruism]]. It is one of the youngest paradigms in psychology formalizing in the 1980s. Only within the last ten years have universities created specific departments for evolutionary psychology and conferred specific degrees in the field.  

<blockquote>"In the distant future I see open fields for far

<blockquote>"In the distant future I see open fields for far

more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." <ref>[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F373&viewtype=text&pageseq=506&keywords=fields%20in%20distant%20see%20i%20open%20future%20the%20far%20for Quote from On the Origins of Species</ref></blockquote>

more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." <ref>[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F373&viewtype=text&pageseq=506&keywords=fields%20in%20distant%20see%20i%20open%20future%20the%20far%20for Quote from On the Origins of Species]</ref></blockquote>

However, most of psychology took a very different path for the next 60 years focusing on [[behavioral psychology]], while [[evolutionary biology]] focused mainly on [[macroevolution|mechanisms of evolution]] and united [[genetics]] and evolution. Several important individuals in psychology and biology however tried to accomplish what Darwin had pointed to.  

However, most of psychology took a very different path for the next 60 years focusing on [[behavioral psychology]], while [[evolutionary biology]] focused mainly on [[macroevolution|mechanisms of evolution]] and united [[genetics]] and evolution. Several important individuals in psychology and biology however tried to accomplish what Darwin had pointed to.