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Evolutionary Perspectives on Adolescence

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Incorporation of the evolutionary perspective into the field of adolescent psychology has been slow compared with other branches of psychology even though sex differences and sexual behavior, major emphases of this perspective, are prominent in adolescence. Adolescent psychology has come to be increasingly focused on individual and ethnic differences in behavior (Lerner and Steinberg 2009). By contrast, evolutionists are interested fundamentally in species-wide behaviors, and so can offer a counterpoint to the emphasis on differences within our species. Furthermore, evolutionists are coming increasingly to address questions of individual and cultural differences, so this perspective potentially can embrace differences as well as universals. Also, evolutionists address questions of biological function, which tend to be ignored by mainstream psychology.

Thus, an evolutionary perspective on human adolescence would entail establishing the basic, universal behaviors and sex...

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Weisfeld, G., Dillon, L.M. (2011). Evolutionary Perspectives on Adolescence. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_6

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