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This didn't seem like an egregious example, because I didn't sense it was meant to be taken all that seriously. "Just So" stories are alive and well in evolutio
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
This didn't seem like an egregious example, because I didn't sense it was meant to be taken all that seriously. "Just So" stories are alive and well in evolutionary psychology. How could you verify that X behavior came about because it helped humans get away from tigers in Africa 20 million years ago? It sounds plausible, I guess, if you take for granted that it must be explicitly coded for somewhere in the genome. But I don't.