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Maria Kyriacou Describe how evolutionary psychology has contributed to our understanding of social behaviour. Comment on the possible limitations of these explanations of social behaviour. This essay addresses how evolutionary psychology has contributed to our understanding of social behaviour and attempts to unravel the limitations of these explanations. Evolutionary psychologists are concerned with the behaviour generated in the brain and elsewhere, as to why and how we have developed our distinctive human abilities, separating us from our primate ancestors. Evolutionary psychologists show that humans are similar to animals and that the inherited structure of our mind is the key product of evolutionary process. The theory suggests that environmental conditions have evolved through the biological phenomenon of natural selection and adaptation, as it helps to identify our cognitive abilities and social capacities that have been effective for survival. Are social and cognitive abilities interrelated? Humphrey (1976) suggested our social behaviour is based upon...

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