What is the evolutionary purpose of anger?

Our emotional and hormonal responses are derived from our earliest vertebrate ancestors. Asking the 'evolutionary purpose' of anger is a bit like asking the 'evolutionary purpose' of the spinal cord. Both are an integral parts of being a vertebrate. read more

Researchers at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology have been investigating the design and evolved function of the emotion of anger, both theoretically and empirically. They consider anger to be a behavior-regulating program that was built into the neural architecture of the human species over evolutionary time. read more

The main purpose of Darwin's work was to support the theory of evolution by demonstrating that emotions in humans and other animals are similar. Most of the similarities he found were between species closely related, but he found some similarities between distantly related species as well. read more