The Pyramid Power

Basic Human Evolutionary Psychology


By: Solace Swanson



Humans have been breeding since... well, since the time where our ancestors popped one of us out that could be classified as a human really. All of us are the by product of breeding. All of your ancestors were successful in reproducing. You carry genes that have been passed down from parent to child throughout the generations.

What does all this mean? Well, two of the most agreed ...

2012 Evolutionary Psychology


By: Ernie Fitzpatrick



It seems that the study of the evolution of consciousness was a still bith around the end of the 19th century. With the advent of the 2012 phenomenon, things have been re-igniting over the last twenty years or so. Could mankind be headed to some major jump, an exponential shift in consciousness, and not some deadly natural disaster? The idea sure gets my vote. 

Darwin brought a lot to ...

The Birth Of The Evolutionary Psychology And Its Theories


By: Joe Goertz



350 years ago William Harvey was the first to state that the hearts main purpose was to circulate blood throughout the body. This was in direct contrast to the rest of the world that was in the thought process that the heart was the center for emotions and love while the brain was the main area for circulation. This revelation led to what ...

Evolutionary Psychology - An Approach in Psychology


By: Philip Psyche



Evolutionary psychology (or EP) proposes that human and primate cognition and behavior can be better understood in light of human and primate evolutionary history. Specifically, EP proposes the primate brain comprises many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations or evolved psychological mechanisms (EPMs), that evolved by natural selection to benefit the survival and reproduction of the organism. These mechanisms are universal in the species, excepting those ...

Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age With New Brain Research, Education and Tools


By: Alvaro Fernandez



Copyright (c) 2009 SharpBrains

Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years - without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination. "Cognition" remains an elusive concept with unclear implications outside the research community.

Earlier this year, I presented a talk to health care professionals at the New York Academy of Medicine, titled "Brain Fitness ...