上述事实是与演化心理学的原则相吻合的，正如我们闻其名而知其意，演化心理学不仅仅是描述精神进展情况，更是试图解释它的发生。

That fits with one of the tenets of evolutionary psychology—a field which, as its name suggests, seeks to explain, rather than merely describe, mental processes.

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提出此假说的牛津大学人类学家及演化心理学家robin Dunbar声称，“社会脑假说”理论已经被发现无法在肉食动物身上应用。

But Robin Dunbar at the University of Oxford, the anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist who proposed the hypothesis, said it was already known that it did not apply to carnivores.

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