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Charles darwin psychology contributions.
Darwin's Impact On Psychology
In On the Origin of Species Darwin wrote:
‘In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches.
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Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.’
He was right. Evolutionary psychology is now an emerging, but already large field and is still growing.
It has provided a framework under which to merge different areas of research and has made profound differences to the way we think about ourselves.
The Comparative Method & Tinbergen’s Questions
Darwin’s evolutionary theory provides the framework for thinking about human behaviour.
His gift to psychology did not stop there; his work on human evolution and the expression of emotions demonstrated how empirical tests can be performed using data from different species to learn about how behaviour evolves. This “comparative method” is the most important method in evolutionar