AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Evolutionary psychologists argue that human nature is not a collection of universal human behavioral repertoires but rather the universal psychological mechanisms underlying these behaviors (Tooby and Cosmides 1990). These universal psychological mechanisms are products of natural selection, as we saw in Section 2.

Detailed explanation-2: -Evolutionary psychologists presume all human behaviours reflect the influence of physical and psychological predispositions that helped human ancestors survive and reproduce.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to evolutionary psychologists, patterns of behavior have evolved through natural selection, in the same way that physical characteristics have evolved. Because of natural selection, adaptive behaviors, or behaviors that increase reproductive success, are kept and passed on from one generation to the next.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kin selection by definition is a unique type of natural selection where the reproductive success of relatives is favored over an individual’s success.