Define evolutionary psychology and compare this with genetics.
What will be an ideal response?
Evolutionary psychology explores human behavior using an evolutionary framework and seeks to explain it with reference to human evolutionary history. Criminologists operating within the evolutionary framework explore how certain behaviors society now calls criminal may have been adaptive in ancestral environments. Evolutionary psychology complements genetics because it informs us how the genes of interest came to be present in the human gene pool in the first place. While genetics looks for what makes people different, evolutionary psychology focuses on what makes us all the same. Another basic difference is that evolutionary psychology looks at ultimate-level “why” questions (What evolutionary problem did this behavioral mechanism evolve to solve?), and geneticists look at proximate-level “how” questions.
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