Here's the Sociobio flowchart:
This is a pretty clear flowchart in my mind, and it can account for the behavior of most animals, except for the most cognitively developed apes, plus probably dolphins, whales, and elephants.Evolutionary psychology, on the other hand, must take cognition into effect (given the cognitive revolution, which was taking place about the same time historically as the creation of Sociobiology and thus could not have had a huge effect on its construction and application to humans), among many other things.
Here's Evo Psych:
- The classic Anthropologist's critique, which says that Evolutionary Psychology is reductionistic of human behavior. This flow chart is hardly reductive, especially as compared to the sociobiological map. I firmly believe that when anthropologists are critiquing evolutionary psychology, they're actually critiquing Sociobiology and aren't aware of the major differences.
- It also quiets Lickliter's and Honeycutt's critique, which says that EP is does not account for possible changes relating to human development. Clearly this is fallacious, as there has always been Evolutionary Developmental Psychology, and this clearly lays that out.
Anyway, I was so inspired by these charts that I simply had to share them with the world.
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