Adaptationist

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper "Natural Language and Natural Selection" citation which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

One of the major goals of adaptationist research is to identify which organismic traits are likely to be adaptations, and which are byproducts or random variations.

Psychology of religion main Adaptationist perspectives on religious belief suggest that, like all behavior, religious behaviors are a product of the human brain.