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The Evolutionary Perspective
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The evolutionary perspective explains behavior by the reproductive advantage a trait would have conferred in ancestral environments.
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A fast, involuntary startle to a snake shape is explained as an inherited advantage in avoiding lethal threats.
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An evolutionary story is testable only when it predicts something new. Otherwise it explains any outcome after the fact.