What criteria would you use to determine whether an observed behavior was an evo

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What criteria would you use to determine whether an observed behavior was an evolved psychological mechanism in a species? Use lecture notes about the characteristics of evolved psychological mechanisms to answer this question, as well as anything from the Alcock readings that you think addresses this question and Identifying Adaptive Problems by Buss (this reading sent to you via email). You might want to also use Observing and Analyzing Human Non-verbal Behavior by Bernstein and Living our Limbic Legacy by Navarro and Karlins (these two readings also emailed to you earlier in the class) and Yawning, by Robert Provine (in Exploring Animal Behavior). Using these last three readings may depend on what behavior you decide to assess as an EPM.

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What criteria would you use to determine whether an observed behavior was an evolved psychological mechanism in a species?

Evolved adaptation vs learned behaviour

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