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Part 1: Essay Evolutionary Psychologists claim that social and cognitive abilities are linked in evolution. On what do they base this claim? Smith and Stevens on evolutionary psychology (Mapping Psychology, 2002) defines evolution as "...a theory of change. They expand on this statement by stating "...that over long periods of time, all species change in small but important ways so that the various species we see today are not the same as those that were living a million or so years ago. Furthermore, evolution is still occurring..." This essay will give particular attention to the various scientific methods and examples that evolutionary psychologists have used to prove that social and cognitive abilities have not changed independently over time. The evidence from these sources will ultimately show how cognitive and social skills of the human species have indeed developed inter-dependently and are therefore linked in evolution. The overall claim of evolutionary psychologists may be described...

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