Apes and angels: Adaptationism versus Panglossianism

Aurelio José Figueredo; Mark J. Landau; Jon A. Sefcek

doi:10.1017/s0140525x04290082

Apes and angels: Adaptationism versus Panglossianism

Aurelio José Figueredo, Mark J. Landau, Jon A. Sefcek

Psychology

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The "straw man" prior expectation of the dominant social psychology paradigm is that humans should behave with perfect rationality and high ethical standards. The more modest claim of evolutionary psychologists is that humans have evolved specific adaptations for adaptive problems that were reliably present in the ancestral environment. Outside that restricted range of problems, one should not expect optimal behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	334-335
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04290082
State	Published - Jun 2004

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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