In this blog post, I will summarize and critically examine the pro- and con arguments regarding whether rape should be viewed as an adaptation—as discussed in “Darwin’s Table”—and present my own position. The Concepts of Natural Selection and Adaptation The mechanism of “natural selection,” as explained by Darwin in ‘On the Origin of Species’, addresses “the question of...
Can evolutionary psychology be the key to understanding human behavior?
In this blog post, I will summarize how we can interpret the human mind and behavior through the lens of evolution—using the core ideas of evolutionary psychology and various everyday examples presented in ‘The Old Toolbox’—and examine the critiques of this approach. Darwin and the Framework of Evolutionary Psychology In the 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s ‘On...