Why it is important to go into Evolutionary Psychology for an understanding of culture? According to David Buss, it helps us to understand the following:

•  Comparing males and females
•  Food acquisition and selection, e.g., why we like spices
•  Sex differences in specific spatial abilities
•  Fears, phobias and anxieties and evolutionary ‘memorie
•  Suicide

It also helps us account for:
•  Mating preferences and strategies
•  Parenting and kinship
•  Group living and cooperation
•  Aggression, conflict and warfare
•  Status and social dominance

 

These are a part of culture. These are the most important and sustained ones and also ones that vary across cultures.

Here we would do well to remember Chris Barker's words:

“To enable an alliance of evolutionary theory and cultural studies to work … we need to ‘deconstruct' the opposition of nature and culture from both directions.”

Evolutionary Psychology can help us understand the ways in which the human brain works and the reasons behind our particular type of mind and its patterns of thinking.