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Adaptationism is a scientific perspective on evolution that focuses on accounting for the products of evolution as collections of adaptive traits, each a product of natural selection with some adaptive rationale.
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| Adaptationism | is a | scientific perspective on evolution that focuses on accounting for the products of evolution as collections of adaptive traits | 0.90 | text |
| psychology | instance of | This reverse engineering is used in disciplines | 0.80 | text |
| economics to explain the features of human cognition | instance of | This reverse engineering is used in disciplines | 0.80 | text |
| the cost of processing information | instance of | help explain cognitive biases as adaptive solutions that assist individuals in decision-making when considering constraints | 0.80 | text |
| Leda Cosmides | instance of | researchers | 0.80 | text |
| John Tooby | instance of | researchers | 0.80 | text |
| and David Buss contend that the bulk of research findings that were uniquely predicted through adaptationist hypothesizing comprise evidence of the methods' validity | instance of | researchers | 0.80 | text |
| Ernst Mayr | instance of | grew out of cybernetics and self-organising systems and was used by biologists of the 1960s | 0.80 | text |
| George C | instance of | grew out of cybernetics and self-organising systems and was used by biologists of the 1960s | 0.80 | text |
| Adaptationism | related to Criteria to identify a trait as an adaptation | It | 0.60 | section |
| Adaptationism | related to Criteria to identify a trait as an adaptation | The | 0.60 | section |
| Adaptationism | related to Debate with structuralism | Structuralist | 0.60 | section |
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