The Cost of Change
The Cost of Change
Evolutionary psychologists have argued that many social changes that reformers have advocated would come only at intolerable cost, because of the limits imposed by evolved human nature. The costs that they identify include loss of freedom and happiness, and tradeoffs in desirable phenotypic characteristics.
Keywords: Evolutionary psychology, social inequality, human nature, social progress, gender equality, social costs
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