Fictions and facts about evolutionary approaches to human behavior: comment on Lickliter and Honeycutt (2003).

doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.842

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Fictions and facts about evolutionary approaches to human behavior: comment on Lickliter and Honeycutt (2003).

Psychological bulletin - 1 Nov 2003

Krebs Dennis L

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Six misconceptions about evolutionary approaches to human behavior are exposed. Evidence is adduced to support the assertions that evolutionary approaches do not (a) adopt a reductionistic "gene-centered" level of analysis, (b) assume that natural selection is the only process that creates and designs ontogenetic processes and phenotypic outcomes, (c) assume that genes are the only agents responsible for the...

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Behavior
Biological Evolution
Environment
Genotype
Humans
Phenotype
Psychology

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PMID: 14599281
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.842

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