Question

Please can someone summarize Tobby and Cosmides view on evolutionary psychology in their “evolutionary psychology a primer” ?

Answer 1

Knowledge and the principal of psychology help to understand and discover the design of the human mind. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby's study helps to understand it better. According to them, Human behaviour is more intelligent and flexible than animals. Human has more instincts than they do- not fewer. We tend to be blind to the existence of these instincts, however, because they work so well. They provide three complementary levels of explanation in evolutionary psychology adaptive problem, cognitive problems and neurophysiological basis and derived five principles. As per their study, our modern skill is the consequence of a stone age mind and different neural circuits are specialised for solving different problems. They also describe five properties which conclude that what one thinks is the hallmark of the solution of the adaptive problem. Their adaptive approach helps to search for adaptive design. Which normally describe the studying of niche-differentiated and mental abilities to be unique for the species being investigated.