Evolutionary Psychology

Holly of The Pervocracy just… gets it. I agree that human behavior is evolved, but I believe that we evolved into humans. If we still had the hierarchies and behaviors of apes on the savannah, we’d be apes on the savannah. (Also, even apes are often more complex than Kanazawa assumes.) It’s like saying... by realadultsex.com | related posts

I haven't even finished Satoshi Kanazawa's new opus, but as Andrew Gelman refuses to do his blogging duty, I thought I might as well give you this quick gem:In order to make reasonable inferences about what values our ancestors might have held during the course of human evolution, I have relied on two sources. First,... by churchofrationality.blogspot.com | related posts

Arthur Dyevre (CEPC) has posted Legal Positivism and Evolutionary Psychology: Can Legal Positivists Learn Something from Darwin? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the present essay, I consider the relevance of Evolutionary Psychology (EP) for... by lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory | related posts

with evolutionary psychology?  Simple: Contrary to Rand, the fact that human beings care about the opinions of the people around them doesn't stem from philosophical error.  It stems from evolution.  Human beings evolved in small groups where good relations were vital for... by econlog.econlib.org | related posts

Boy, where would Evolutionary Psychology and its more deterministic uncle Sociobiology be without the sexual revolution? All that seed-spreading. All that “natural promiscuity” among men. All that “natural reticence” (cough Rule Number One cough) in women. What do you... by realadultsex.com | related posts

these patterns: Objectivists defied the many truisms about human nature that evolutionary psychology later came to explain.  Truisms like: 1. Good looks and youth are very important for sexual attraction - especially from a male point of view. 2. People feel jealous when their... by econlog.econlib.org | related posts

today. I’ll need to reread this section a couple times, but it looks like selection on the big toe is one of the most important aspects of hominin hand/foot evolution. And it would not be impossible for evolutionary changes in the human hand to be largely by-products of selection on the foot, due... by realadultsex.com | related posts

Via Matthew Yglesias we learn that former Bush minion and permanent-war proponent John Bolton is also a follower of pull-it-out-of-your-ass evolutionary psychology. Quoth Bolton You know, homo sapiens are hard-wired for violent conflict, and we’re not going to eliminate violent... by realadultsex.com | related posts

children and doesn’t want to be separated from them. Which ought to be its own post.) Finally, I’ll stop ranting about Evolutionary Psychology as soon as they stop making the kind of errors in logic and rhetoric that would get, say, a anthropologist, chemist, or dental... by realadultsex.com | related posts

British physicist David Tyler discusses recent evolutionary psychology speculations about the origin of religion: the "potential answers" Culotta mentions at the outset have the word potential in bold and the rest is in the imagination. What is strikingly lacking in these studies... by post-darwinist.blogspot.com | related posts