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1、PsychologicalBulletin©2009AmericanPsychologicalAssociation2009,Vol.135,No.5,794–8210033-2909/09/$12.00DOI:10.1037/a0016845BeyondthePleistocene:UsingPhylogenyandConstrainttoInformtheEvolutionaryPsychologyofHumanMatingPaulW.EastwickTexasA&MUniversityandNorthwesternUniversityEvol
2、utionarypsychologistsexploretheadaptivefunctionoftraitsandbehaviorsthatcharacterizemodernHomosapiens.However,evolutionarypsychologistshaveyettoincorporatethephylogeneticrelation-shipbetweenmodernHomosapiensandhumans’hominidandpongidrelatives(bothlivingandextinct)intotheirtheor
3、izing.Byconsideringthespecifictimingofevolutionaryeventsandtheroleofevolu-tionaryconstraint,researchersusingthephylogeneticapproachcangeneratenewpredictionsregardingmatingphenomenaandderivenewexplanationsforexistingevolutionarypsychologicalfindings.Especiallyusefulistheconcept
4、oftheadaptiveworkaround—anadaptationthatmanagesthemaladap-tiveelementsofapre-existingevolutionaryconstraint.Thecurrentrevieworganizes7featuresofhumanmatingintotheirphylogeneticcontextandpresentsevidencethat2adaptiveworkaroundsplayedacriticalroleasHomosapiens’smatingpsychologye
5、volved.Theseadaptiveworkaroundsfunctioninparttomuteorrefocustheeffectsofolder,previouslyevolvedadaptationsandhighlightthelayerednatureofhumans’matingpsychology.Keywords:evolutionarypsychology,humanmating,phylogeny,constraint,attachmentOnlyafewyearsafterthepublicationofOntheOri
6、ginofexplainitsadaptivesignificance,whereasthesecondentailsex-Species(Darwin,1859),thescientificcommunityandthepublicataminingatrait’sphylogenetichistory,whichshedslightonitslargehadbecomecaptivatedbythepossibilitythathumanshadanevolutionarydevelopmentovertime.Inpractice,evolu
7、tionaryevolutionaryheritagethatstretchedbackmillionsofyears.Thatpsychologistsareprimarilyguidedbyoneofthetwo“why”wearebonafidemembersoftheanimalkingdom,descendedfromquestions:thequestionofadaptivefunction.Nearlyalloftheanancestrallinethatalsogaverisetomodernchimpanzeesandmajor
8、discoveriestocomeoutofevolutionarypsychologyhavebonobos,haspl