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Dr. John B. Calhoun's work with "The Beautiful Ones" may unfortunately generalize to human civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFveSUmh9U https://w

• causality0 2y ago
  It's strange. We know that instincts, hormones, and other aspects of our biology have a tremendous influence on our thoughts and behaviors, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of effort to use that to problem-solve. There's evolutionary psychology, but given the fraction of human problems traceable to maladaption to the modern world, one would think "evolutionary anthropo-sociology" would a foundational pillar of science. Like, why doesn't "humans didn't evolve to sleep in a room by themselves at the age of four" carry as much weight as "don't let your kids eat lead paint chips"?
  • BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
    Probably because evolutionary psychology is an incestuous pseudoscience of just-so-stories, small sample sizes, bad extrapolations, non reproducibility etc.