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in Living by Feminist Philosophers
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 07, 2010 —
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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in Arts by Post-Darwinist
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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...