Trying to Fix the Development in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

Trying to Fix the Development in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary developmental psychology: understanding the evolution of human behavior and development.

This is an introduction to this special issue on evolutionary psychology (EP) and evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP). We suggest here that, contrary to some common assumptions, mainstream psychology continues to be essentially non Darwinian and that EP and EDP are new approaches that can potentially help us to change this situation. We then present the organization of the special issue...

Evolutionary developmental psychology.

Evolutionary developmental psychology is the study of the genetic and ecological mechanisms that govern the development of social and cognitive competencies common to all human beings and the epigenetic (gene-environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions. The basic assumptions and domains of this emerging field, as related to human life history and social...

Trying to Fix Traffic: Past, Present, and Some Future Trends

According to the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, in 2016, an average driver in Los Angeles has spent 100 hours (approximately 4 days) in traffic jams. The economic impact of this is huge. Besides, also issues related to environment is non-negligible. Many naive solutions tend to ignore the fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads just makes people drive more, i.e., more supply creates mo...

Child development and evolutionary psychology.

Evolutionary developmental psychology involves the expression of evolved, epigenetic programs, as described by the developmental systems approach, over the course of ontogeny. There have been different selection pressures on organisms at different times in ontogeny, and some characteristics of infants and children were selected in evolution to serve an adaptive function at that time in their li...