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'''Center for Evolutionary Psychology''' (CEP) is a research center co-founded and co-directed by [[Biography:John Tooby|John Tooby]] and [[Biography:Leda Cosmides|Leda Cosmides]] and is affiliated with the [[Organization:University of California, Santa Barbara|University of California, Santa Barbara]].

The center is meant to provide research support and comprehensive training in the field of [[Philosophy:Evolutionary psychology|evolutionary psychology]]. The goals of the center are to facilitate the discovery of the adaptations that characterize the species-wide architecture of the human mind and brain and to explore how socio-cultural phenomena can be explained with reference to these adaptations.

The extramural board of the center are made up of Irven DeVore, [[Biography:Paul Ekman|Paul Ekman]], [[Biography:Michael Gazzaniga|Michael Gazzaniga]], [[Biography:Steven Pinker|Steven Pinker]] and [[Biography:Roger Shepard|Roger Shepard]].

== See also ==
* [[Biography:Leda Cosmides|Leda Cosmides]]
* [[Philosophy:Evolutionary psychology|Evolutionary psychology]]
* [[Biography:John Tooby|John Tooby]]

== External links ==
*{{official website|http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/}}

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