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EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
at least one of the crucial selection environments for our ancestors. For example, the
cooperative group may well have been the primary survival strategy for humans and
this would have selected for adaptations suited for cooperative living.
Subsequently, because social adaptive problems were (and are) so crucial to human 67
survival and reproduction many of the most important evolved psychological
mechanisms will be social in character.
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