Caporael L R
Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
Annu Rev Psychol. 2001;52:607-28. doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.607.
Although evolutionary psychology is typically associated with "selfish gene theory," numerous other approaches to the study of mind and behavior provide a wealth of concepts for theorizing about psychology, culture, and development. These include general evolutionary approaches and theories focused on sociality, dual inheritance, multilevel selection, and developmental systems. Most evolutionary accounts use the same methods as Darwin-the "fit among facts"-to use natural selection as an explanation for behavior. Scientific standards for constraining and evaluating such accounts, research into the mutual influence of science and society on the understanding of evolution, and computational technologies for modeling species-typical processes are important considerations. Coevolutionary theories and developmental systems theories may eventually give rise to unification in a broad and general sense. Such a unification would be interdisciplinary and problem centered rather than discipline centered.
虽然进化心理学通常与“自私基因理论”相关联，但研究心理和行为的许多其他方法为心理、文化和发展的理论化提供了丰富的概念。这些方法包括一般进化方法以及关注社会性、双重遗传、多层次选择和发展系统的理论。大多数进化解释采用与达尔文相同的方法——“事实之间的契合”——将自然选择作为行为的一种解释。约束和评估此类解释的科学标准、对科学与社会在进化理解方面相互影响的研究，以及用于模拟物种典型过程的计算技术都是重要的考虑因素。共同进化理论和发展系统理论最终可能会在广义上实现统一。这样的统一将以跨学科和问题为中心，而不是以学科为中心。
