Our evolved psychology is the foundation of all culture, not the other way around.

我们进化而来的心理是所有文化的基础，而不是相反。

Evolutionary psychology is not about what's unchangeable in human nature, but about what was adaptive in our ancestral environment.

进化心理学不是关于人性中不可改变的部分，而是关于在我们祖先环境中具有适应性的部分。

The brain is not a general-purpose computer but a collection of specialized circuits designed to solve specific adaptive problems.

大脑不是通用计算机，而是为解决特定适应性问题而设计的专门神经回路的集合。

Natural selection is the only known natural process that can build functional complexity.

自然选择是已知唯一能够构建功能复杂性的自然过程。

The architecture of the human mind is better adapted to the Pleistocene than to the modern world.

人类心智的结构更适合更新世而非现代世界。

We are all walking around with an evolutionary user's manual in our heads, but most people don't realize it.

我们每个人的头脑中都带着一本进化用户手册四处走动，但大多数人没有意识到这一点。

The human brain consists of many specialized circuits that evolved to solve specific problems our ancestors faced during our evolutionary history.

人类大脑由许多专门化的神经回路组成，这些回路进化出来是为了解决我们祖先在进化历史中面临的特定问题。

Emotions are adaptations that have evolved to coordinate other psychological mechanisms in solving specific adaptive problems.

情绪是进化出来的适应机制，用于协调其他心理机制解决特定的适应性问题。

Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind.

我们现代的头骨里装着一个石器时代的心智。

The mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

心智是一套信息处理机器，它们由自然选择设计来解决我们狩猎采集祖先面临的适应性问题。