In sci.physics.research "Oz" wrote: "Classical systems do have a space of states. Indeed much of
physics is finding the states, and in particular separating them into classes."
Extrapolating to evolutionary biology: Our phylogeny has its fitness landscapes and, implicitly, the
evolutionary pressures that shaped their realized potentials.
Finding "the states" that directly pertain to evolutionary psychobiology similarly requires
"separating into classes".
I have found that an optimal approach for achieving a *supplementary* (or complementary and hitherto
largely missing) unifying understanding of our psychological (and behavioural) current selves and
the phylogeny of our phenotype is to (similarly) 'separate out' a couple (or so) classes of broadly
thematic patterns of evolutionary pressures *impacting on (and through) individuals*.
Characterisitc snapshots of different kinds of environmental (and all kinds of *effectively
endogenous*) selection pressures can, from the perspective of individuals (of populations in the
phylogeny of fauna), be classified as sometimes predominantly of being of opportunity type, at other
times of predominantly adversity type, and at yet other times of a *mixture* of significant
"opportunity AND adversity type" (evolutionary pressures).
Evolutionary/life-situational adversity can in turn be classified so as to reveal a type of
evolutionarily as well as individually significant situations that range from being slowly to
rapidly traumatizing (or "selective 'Hibernation' imploring"😉.
The in the phylogeny of fauna significant life-situations that consisted of *a mixture* of the last-
mention subtype of adversity type evolutionary/environmental/"effectively endogenous" pressures, and
evolutionary/environmental/effectively endogenous opportunity type evolutionary pressures, are
encapsulated and concEPTualized (with pragmatic tenuousness) as "AEVASIVE".
That AEVASIVE also implicitly paints a both poignant and playful picture of behavioral and
neurophysiological correlates of this *de facto principle* (an as if 'sub principle' to Darwin's
super principle "natural selection"😉 ought just to strengthen the appeal of this my "explanatory
philosophical term". %-}
Yours mainly seriously this time,
P