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evolutionary psychology

evolutionary psychology noun: a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.

Noun

evolutionary psychology (uncountable)

  1. (evolutionary theory) A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
    • You’ll have to forgive this exceptionally long post here, but for many critics of (and in) the manosphere of evolutionary psychology the following post articulates things better than I could.2015 June 9, Rollo Tomassi, “In Defense of Evo-Psych”, in The Rational Male
    Synonyms:
    evo-psych

evolutionary psychology meaning in Bengali

evolutionary psychology in Bengali

বিবর্তনমূলক মনোবিজ্ঞান

Synonyms of evolutionary psychology

Questions about evolutionary psychology

What does evolutionary psychology mean?
Evolutionary psychology means a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
What is evolutionary psychology in Bengali?
Evolutionary psychology in Bengali is বিবর্তনমূলক মনোবিজ্ঞান. See Evolutionary psychology meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is evolutionary psychology?
Evolutionary psychology is a noun.

Words near evolutionary psychology in the dictionary

  1. evolutionary creationist
  2. evolutionary creationists
  3. evolutionary developmental biology
  4. evolutionary ethics
  5. evolutionary genetics
  6. evolutionary psychology
  7. evolutionary stable strategy
  8. evolutionary taxonomist
  9. evolutionary taxonomists
  10. evolutionary theories
  11. evolutionary theory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evolutionary psychology (page history and authors); evolutionary psychology (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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