Provide some criticism of the evolutionary perspectives
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: 1) The evolutionary perspective pays insufficient attention to the environmental and social factors affecting people's behavior; and 2) There is no good way experimentally to test theories derived from the evolutionary approach because they happened a long time ago.
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