Editing Evolutionary psychology (section)

===Reductionism and determinism===
Some critics view evolutionary psychology as a form of genetic [[Reductionism#Reductionism and science|reductionism]] and [[genetic determinism]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maiers |first1=Wolfgang |editor1-first=Niamh |editor1-last=Stephenson |title=Theoretical Psychology: Critical Contributions |year=2003 |publisher=Captus University Publications |location=Concord, Ont. |isbn=978-1-55322-055-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/theoreticalpsych2001inte/page/426 426–35] |chapter=The Bogus Claim of Evolutionary Psychology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uA5VIXQmYQUC&pg=PA426 |url=https://archive.org/details/theoreticalpsych2001inte/page/426 }}</ref><ref name=Plotkin-Henry-p.150>Plotkin, Henry. 2004 Evolutionary thought in Psychology: A Brief History. Blackwell. p. 150.</ref> a common critique being that evolutionary psychology does not address the complexity of individual development and experience and fails to explain the influence of genes on behavior in individual cases.<ref name=instinct/> Evolutionary psychologists respond that they are working within a nature-nurture interactionist framework that acknowledges that many psychological adaptations are facultative (sensitive to environmental variations during individual development). The discipline is generally not focused on proximate analyses of behavior, but rather its focus is on the study of distal/ultimate causality (the evolution of psychological adaptations). The field of behavioral genetics is focused on the study of the proximate influence of genes on behavior.<ref name=AmPs2010/>