According to the text, looking for internal causes of behavior is important partly
because an evolutionary approach to understanding human behavior assumes that
variation is a crucial aspect of natural selection.
How does this apply to looking for
internal causes of behavior?
(a) Principles of natural selection apply to psychological, as well as physical,
attributes in helping an organism adapt to its environment.
(b) Evolutionary theory explains the variations in many important human
physical characteristics.
(c) Principles of natural selection dictate that humans have had the same
psychological attributes throughout their evolutionary history.
(d) All of the above.
A
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