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Essay Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology 1 2 3 4 Johan J. Bolhuis *, Gillian R. Brown , Robert C. Richardson , Kevin N. Laland * 1 Behavioural Biology Group and Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2 School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, 4 School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Abstract: Evolutionary Psychology which rapidly became dominated by a pressures acting in ancestral conditions—in (EP) views the human mind as school of thought stemming from the an environment of evolutionary adapted- organized into many modules, each University of California at Santa Barbara ness (EEA)—and are not necessarily adap- underpinned by psychological ad- (see Box 1). The essence of this brand of tive in a contemporary world that has aptations designed to solve prob- Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is neatly changed radically in recent millennia. lems faced by our Pleistocene summarized in the famous quote that ‘‘Our From this vantage point, genetic evolution ancestors. We argue that the key modern skulls house a Stone Age mind’’ [2]. simply could not keep pace fully with the tenets of the established EP para- However, many evolutionarily minded extraordinary rate at which human tech- digm require modification in