Goetz Aaron T, Shackelford Todd K
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Davie 33314, USA.
Am J Psychol. 2006 Winter;119(4):567-84.
Darwinian selection has become the centerpiece of biology, and in the past few decades many psychologists and anthropologists have recognized the value of using an evolutionary perspective to guide their work. With a focus on evolved psychological mechanisms and associated information processing features, evolutionary psychology has risen as a compelling and fruitful approach to the study of human psychology and behavior. In this article we review the instrument of evolution: natural selection, the products of evolution, and the impact of evolutionary thinking on modern psychological science. We conclude that as prejudicial barriers are overcome, as more evolutionary psychological work is conducted, and as hypothesized psychological mechanisms are substantiated in other disciplines, evolutionary psychology will emerge as the metatheory for psychology.
达尔文式选择已成为生物学的核心，在过去几十年里，许多心理学家和人类学家已经认识到运用进化视角来指导其工作的价值。聚焦于进化而来的心理机制及相关信息处理特征，进化心理学已崛起成为研究人类心理与行为的一种引人关注且卓有成效的方法。在本文中，我们审视了进化的手段：自然选择、进化的产物以及进化思维对现代心理科学的影响。我们得出结论，随着偏见性障碍被克服，随着开展更多的进化心理学研究工作，以及随着假设的心理机制在其他学科中得到证实，进化心理学将成为心理学的元理论。
