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Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology is the the study of the evolution of behavior using principles of natural selection. It is the study of the evolutionary origins of human behavior patterns.
It is a modern extension of Darwin's theory to the explanation of human and nonhuman social behavior - also called Sociobiology
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