Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.

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  1. Evolutionary Psychology

    Melvyn Bragg explores the basis for the idea of Evolutionary Psychology and the context for its development as a discipline. What can it tell us about how we behave, and can it be trusted?

    2 November 2000

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    Featuring: Janet Radcliffe Richards, Nicholas Humphrey, Steven Rose

     
  2. Human Nature

    Melvyn Bragg discusses human nature. Are humans born as blank slates and our natures are defined by upbringing and experience or is human nature innate and pre-destined, regardless of time and place?

    7 November 2002

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    Featuring: Steven Pinker, Janet Radcliffe Richards, John Gray