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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Running into a busy freeway puts one's own survival at risk, which goes against the idea of self-preservation that is often cited in evolutionary psychology as a driving force behind behavior.

Your Text Offers Several Challenges That Evolutionary Psychology Has Not