According to evolutionary psychology, which of the following does NOT account for individual differences?
A) Certain levels of maladaptive traits such as neuroticism ensure that populations are not so excessively large that it threatens the survival of the group.
B) Behavioral patterns evolve as reactions to specific environmental experiences (and if different individuals inhabit different environments, they will then exhibit different behavioral patterns).
C) Individuals differ in terms of the behavioral strategies that make the most sense, given their other characteristics.
D) Some biologically influenced behavior may be "frequency dependent" (only appearing in some subset of the population).

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Evolutionary psychology does not typically argue that maladaptive traits such as neuroticism are maintained in a population to control its size. Instead, it focuses on how traits and behaviors have evolved due to their adaptive value in ancestral environments, including how individual differences might arise from environmental variations, differing strategies, or frequency-dependent selection.

According to Evolutionary Psychology, Which of the Following Does NOT