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Evolutionary psychology (EP) attempts to explain psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection

Evolutionary Psychology

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  1. August 15, 2010 —   Prof.  Marc Hauser is a leading figure in the attempts to understand cognition in evolutionary terms.  He is particularly well know for his thesis that there in an inborn language of morality.  He had...

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    August 06, 2010 — I make reference to this, and my fondness for the general idea that many human behaviors have a foundation in the experiences of the last 50,000 generations of our ancestors. I don't want to oversell the idea as controlling our behavior - I...

  4. July 17, 2010 — Interesting . . . I still don't fully buy into evolutionary psychology - it has value, but it feels very reductionist to me. From BloggingHeads.tv. Robert Wright, Peter Railton discuss...

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    June 25, 2010 — Someone tipped me off about this MIT Press book, attempting to explode the "evolutionary psychology" racket: The claims of evolutionary psychology may pass muster as...

  6. June 13, 2010 — Evolutionary Psychology suffers from a PR problem, which can be mostly blamed on ignorant (even if well-intentioned) members of the population who don't know what they're talking about....

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    May 16, 2010 — Nothing too shocking here for students of evolutionary psychology but it’s always interesting to see real world examples of how our shared behavior. There is a new book by...

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    May 13, 2010 — Laura Vivanco Thanks to BevBB , I came across Anthony Cox and Maryanne Fisher's "The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles." Published in the Journal of Social,...

  9. May 01, 2010 — Hey, lucky taxpayer, you will soon get a chance to fund "evolutionary psychology" in English literature departments too: At a time when university literature departments are confronting painful budget cuts,...

  10. April 08, 2010 — You probably knew I’d get around to it sooner or later but Holly of The Pervocracy very nicely introduces the evolutionary psychology bingo card that’s been making the...

  11. April 06, 2010 — For those who are so incredibly lucky that they have never heard about this pseudo-scientific rubbish: evolutionary psychology is a clumsy attempt to present gender...

  12. April 07, 2010 — David Craig put a link to this on my facebook wall: It's funny, but we shouldn't forget the parallel set of male-disparaging labels: we're uncommunicative , we're hard of hearing , we're unempathetic , we're...

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    March 14, 2010 — Andrew Perrin has a discussion of an article on evolutionary psychology and gender : just finished reading Rosemary Hopcroft’s interesting article , Gender Inequality in Interaction – an...

  14. March 03, 2010 — 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...

  15. February 28, 2010 — 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...

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