COMMENTARY: Evolutionary Psychology: A View From Evolutionary Biology

Given the recent explosion of interest in applica-tions of evolutionary biology to understanding human psychology, we think it timely to assure better under-standing of modern evolutionary theory among the psychologists who might be using it. We find it neces-sary to do so because of the very reduced version of evolutionary theorizing that has been incorporated into much of evolutionary psychology so far. Our aim here is to clarify why the use of a reduced version of evolu-tionary genetics will lead to faulty science and to indi-cate where other resources of evolutionary biology can be found that might elevate the standard of the evolu-tionary component of evolutionary psychology.