مقدمه برای موضوع خاص در روانشناسی تکاملی تربیتی

In our current culture, one in which we no longer need to know the growing cycles of plants to gather, the seasonal migration patterns of herding animals, how to construct an atlatl, or which plants make the best poison for arrow tips. In the modernized Western world, children must learn the skills needed to survive in a highly technical society, skills such as how to use a computer program, balance a checkbook, develop and maintain a stock market portfolio. Moreover, these skills cannot necessarily be learned “on the job” as they require a background of basics, such as reading, writing, and mathematics, not to mention understanding the basic mechanisms of capitalistic economy and navigating a social world filled with strangers.