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If Evolutionary Psychology is true, concern for ones immediate family is just disguised selfishness. Discuss. "Evolutionary psychologists (EP) are concerned with studying the evolved cognitive structure of the mind. EP argues that much has changed since the mind evolved in the ancestral environment and behaviours today may or may not be adaptive. The focus of study is on psychological or mental mechanisms.....Evolutionary psychologists believe these mechanisms were shaped by natural selection..." (Leda Cosmides and John Tooby). The perspective, evolutionary psychology has grown from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution (1859). Darwin believed that the evolutionary process of natural selection was responsible for shaping behaviour as well as anatomy and physiology. He envisaged that all human behaviour would eventually be explained in evolutionary principles. Classical Darwinism saw natural selection as a competition between individuals or groups. Neo-Darwinist's consider the process to be a competition between genes. With this modification they believe evolution theory can now...

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