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Evolutionary Psychology: The Science of Human Behavior and Evolution

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Evolutionary Psychology is based on the premise that human behavior is the product of evolutionary powers. The premise is unproved. Human behavior is caused by human intelligence and free will, even though human behavior includes somatic and psychosomatic influences and effects. A far more comprehensive exploration of the very items that Dr. Rossano studies in this boook is a book that appeared in 1941 entitled: "Thomistic Psychology" by Robert Brennan, as well as the work of Alfred Adler, the founder of Individal Psychology. To link human behavior to purely biological causes, evolutionary or otherwise is good Ethology, but it is not Anthropology, which is the proper name for the science of human beings. This study is interesting but not complete in its study of those poweers that are specific to human beings: the human intellect and will. Evcolutionary psychology seems to reduce these powers to outgrowths or products of human or evolutionary biology. FOr those interesting I would recommend a more complete study of thess specifically human powers in the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas: Part I, Questions 75-93.

Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska

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