Evolutionary Psychology

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An introductory course aimed at undergraduates with little or no experience with this discipline. Evolutionary psychology is the scientific study of human nature dedicated to discovering and understanding the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve ancestral survival and reproductive problems. The course focuses on a brief historical review of key themes in psychology and evolutionary biology followed by the adaptive problems of and evolved solutions to survival, long-term mating, short-term mating, parenting, kinship, cooperation, aggression and warfare, conflict between the sexes, status, prestige and social dominance.