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Evolutionary Psychology
Explaining the mind as shaped by natural and sexual selection: adaptations to ancestral environments, mismatch (sugar, screens), parental investment, cheater detection, prepared fears, kin and reciprocity, and the critiques of 'just-so stories'.
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Prereqs: The Selfish Gene; Evolution. Next: Neuroscience basics; Status & signaling. Sources: Cosmides & Tooby, 'Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer'; Trivers, 'Parental Investment and Sexual Selection' (1972); Robert Sapolsky, *Behave* (2017).Next: 1. Core idea