A civically-directed, spandrelist approach to an evolutionary psychology of experience, Applied Evolutionary Phenomenology (AEP) articulates an interstitial of applied anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and existential phenomenology, amidst a weave of non-violent communication and a weft of historical-libidinal materialism.

Unlike approaches that seek to describe modern cognitive structures as solutions to challenges presented in an environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, AEP asks how spandrels—structural side-effects of an adaptive architecture—unfold ecological clearings, opening thereof new trajectories of evolution.