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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.