Your Text Offers Several Challenges That Evolutionary Psychology Has Not

question 5

Multiple Choice

Your text offers several challenges that evolutionary psychology has not been able to address. Which of the following would also challenge evolutionary rationales for helping behavior?

• A) Mario calls an ambulance to help his elderly mother, who is dying.
• B) Susan runs out into a busy freeway to save a wounded animal.
• C) Henry saves his daughter before he saves his sister from a flooded basement.
• D) Sarah helps her biological daughter before helping her stepson escape a fire.

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