Sunday, December 22, 2024

John Tooby (1952-2023)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tooby

an American anthropologist who, together with his psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, pioneered the field of evolutionary psychology.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychologythat examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionaryperspective.[1][2] It seeks to identify human psychological adaptationswith regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve. In this framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-productsof other adaptive traits.[3][4]