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1. Two principles of evolutionary psychology are (1) "Different neural circuits are specialized for solving different adaptive problems", and (2) "Our modern skulls house a stone age mind". Discuss these principles in terms of what they mean and how they relate to one another. Be sure to define what "adaptive problems" are, and to explain what they have to do with "the stone age" and with the psychology of modern humans. The sole purpose of the human mind is to reproduce itself. Through the evolutionary process heritable genes have programmed sets of behaviours into the mind. The foundation of human culture and society as a whole is built on the need to reproduce...or so the evolutionary psychological argument states. This is a theory that may strike people as being crude, but it is one that has gained increasing popularity. The recognition of this new science is reflected in its media coverage, which...

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