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What cultural influences are you talking about? Can you give an example? Specifically, what influences that aren't just a parameter within the framework of evol
by asdflkj 16y ago
What cultural influences are you talking about? Can you give an example? Specifically, what influences that aren't just a parameter within the framework of evolutionary psychology?
- philwelch 16y agoCultural variations in meeting-and-mating practices are all around if you read the tiniest bit of anthropology on the subject. Can you clarify what you mean by "just a parameter within the framework of evolutionary psychology"?
- asdflkj 16y agoI mean back in hunter-gatherer days, women were impressed by your animal hides or whatnot, and not your luxury car, but those two things are isomorphic. You can find a lot of such ultimately trivial variation, where you only have to adjust your model a tiny bit. Give me an example of an important social phenomenon not explicable through a minor adjustment to common ev-psych principles.
- philwelch 16y agoI think the argument for claiming evo-psych justifications for PUA techniques make the assumption that picking up women in bars is at all isomorphic to human sexual practices among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. You can't even find practices isomorphic to that among all (or even most) contemporary human cultures--how can you claim that as some sort of universal human thing?