"Depend on? The very phrase is anathema to the dogma of a universal human nature." It's unfortunate to find such a simple misunderstanding in the middle of the

"Depend on? The very phrase is anathema to the dogma of a universal human nature." It's unfortunate to find such a simple misunderstanding in the middle of the article; as Robert Wright explains in "The Moral Animal", it is not necessarily behavior that is coded, but adaptability. To shuffle this entire domain off to behavioral ecology ignores the fact that adaptability doesn't have to be an overt product of higher functions. An evolutionarily coded genotype that is dependent on environment for phenotype still falls under the purview of ev psych.