>>I'm not trying to be a troll, but how can we have behavior that wasn't caused by evolution? We are genetically programmed (from evolution) to get most of our

>>I'm not trying to be a troll, but how can we have behavior that wasn't caused by evolution? We are genetically programmed (from evolution) to get most of our behavior from culture. That is what evolutionary biologists (and evolutionary psychologists) say, afaik. So lots of behavior is based on evolution, by way of cultural evolution. (Then there is random noise etc.) Edit: I might add that I believe the book about rape wasn't exactly seen as the best of research in the evol psychology area... But I've also seen lots of ideologically motivated (marxists and religious) attacks on evol psych.