Abstract: The paradigm of Evolutionary Psychology is confronting the difficult of lacking empiristic evidence from cognition area; and on the other hand, studies about inductive inference lack powerful approach. This article mentions that explaining inductive inference under the paradigm of EP would solve the problems of both. The function-analysis-method and view of domain specificity of EP will suggest the new approach of inductive inference; and empiristic studies of inductive inference will offer EP with more experimental evidence. At last, the article suggests that inductive inference should be a domain specificity mechanism shaped by evolution.

Key words: evolutionary psychology, inductive inference, domain specificity, adaptive mechanism.