Modeling biological systems as Adaption Executors is a central principle of evolutionary biology in general, and evolutionary psychology in particular.
Modeling biological systems as **Adaption Executors ** is central principle of evolutionary biology in general, and evolutionary psychology in particular.
Modeling biological systems as **Adaption Executors ** is central principle of evolutionary biology in general, and evolutionary psychology in particular.
If we regarded human taste buds as trying to maximize fitness, we might expect that, say, humans fed a diet too high in calories and too low in
micronutrients,micronutrients would begin to find lettucedelicious,delicious and cheeseburgers distasteful. But it is better to regard taste buds as an executing adaptation - they are adapted to an ancestral environment in which calories, not micronutrients, were the limiting factor. And now they are simply executing that adaptation - evolution operates on too slow a timescale to re-adapt to such a recent condition.