I gotta say I'm surprised at the shallowness of the interpretations here. Very hasty stuff. Her speech is very humanities academic and this being a casual inte

I gotta say I'm surprised at the shallowness of the interpretations here. Very hasty stuff. Her speech is very humanities academic and this being a casual interview she's not in a rush to lay it all out in one paragraph. She's claiming we haven't eliminated a number of possibilities about how brain structure works and how that transmits over generations. Concretely, (a) we don't know just how plastic the brain is and whether the brain someone has today has identical locations for behavioral responses to someone in the past across the board, (b) we don't know if cultural behavioral selection dictates brain structure transmission over generations; and (c) we don't know if behavioral control locations (what she's calling "modules") don't move over generations regardless of the questions about cultural selection: >We know that ancient humans avoided predation, for instance. What exactly they did is something evolutionary psychologists have to show. Did our ancestors avoid predation because they were good at hiding in bushes or because they were running? Evolutionary psychologists would say that the better explanation is that they were running. But the fact that they ran to avoid predation and the fact that we have the disposition to run when we’re endangered still does not establish that there’s a singular module doing both of those jobs. These are real questions because we know the brain is plastic and it's not a bone, so unlike paleontology they have no physical evidence to base their speculation on the past on.