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Taking into account the shortcomings and strengths of the related fields of comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology, we propose merging these subfields into Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. This new field will encompass the study of cognitive continuities and discontinuities across species, with the goal of understanding both ultimate and proximal causes for the emergence of various traits. Importantly, comparative evolutionary psychologists will embrace both field and laboratory approaches and shed the shackles of an exclusive focus on uniquely human traits. This new field will exemplify an appreciation for a diversity of traits in both closely related and distantly related species that an understanding of evolution demands. |
