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We evolved through natural selection. Selection has crafted and refined our physiology into multiple functionally specialised mechanisms. Might it also have crafted and refined our psychology in a similar way? There is no a priori guarantee that it has. But it should be clear that such a notion is a real contender. And if that is indeed the case, and there are no reasonable grounds to dismiss this, then might not hypothesising about adaptive problems and adaptive solutions yield new insights? As imperfect as the method is, might it not yield new and permanent editions of knowledge?
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Goldfinch, A. (2015). Conclusions. In: Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137442918_7
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