By altering their environment, beavers and humans change the selective processes of their own evolution
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Over the last 20 years the new approach of evolutionary psychology has developed. Its purpose is to help us understand human internal states and responses by applying knowledge of evolutionary processes (Workman and Reader 2013).
Evolutionary psychology treats the mind as a product of evolutionary forces and is built around a number of assumptions including:
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