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Surely the hypothesis about modules as discrete physical structures is not central to the idea that genes influence psychology? If you accept that genes contro
by randallsquared 6y ago
Surely the hypothesis about modules as discrete physical structures is not central to the idea that genes influence psychology? If you accept that genes control some aspects of psychology through effects on the brain and the construction thereof, then evolution can select for psychological features. Lack of rigor is an important thing to call out, of course. Also, if I'm wrong and the whole field depends on some specific model of how genes influence the brain, then that would be interesting, but she doesn't seem to be arguing that directly.