I recall that we have discussed the Ray Baumeister speech, "Is There Anything Good about Men?"[1] as a direct submission to Hacker News before. Baumeister is on

I recall that we have discussed the Ray Baumeister speech, "Is There Anything Good about Men?"[1] as a direct submission to Hacker News before. Baumeister is one of several psychologists who sometimes hypothesizes from an evolutionary psychology perspective. The "Evolutionary Psychology Primer" by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby[2] is often taken to be the definitive discussion of what evolutionary psychology is as an intellectual movement. An article from American Psychologist in 2010, "Evolutionary Psychology: Controversies, Questions, Prospects, and Limitations"[3] by young women (perhaps that's significant here) who had recently finished graduate study in evolutionary psychology argues that evolutionary psychology has important contributions to make to psychology research in general. Every psychologist I know is sure that human beings originated from a process of biological evolution, but I don't meet a lot of working psychologists who describe themselves as evolutionary psychologists. The Wikipedia articles on evolutionary psychology seem to be beset by edit wars between supporters and critics of that perspective, rather than combining both points of view in one balanced article with lots of good references. A psychologist with a contrasting point of view is Janet Hyde,[4] a psychologist well trained in human behavior genetics. She has published papers suggesting that most supposed innate gender differences between men and women are shaped mostly by culture rather than by biological inheritance. See what you think after reading some of the key documents. I'm still making up my mind. [1] http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm [2] http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html [3] http://www.dianafleischman.com/epap.pdf http://www.dianafleischman.com/epap.pdf [4] http://psych.wisc.edu/faculty-hyde.htm http://psych.wisc.edu/faculty-hyde.htm http://www.apa.org/research/action/difference.aspx http://www.apa.org/research/action/difference.aspx