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Layfolk coming up with just-so stories to justify what they want to be true are very, very different from actual scientists doing actual research on actual fals
by convexfunction 11y ago
Layfolk coming up with just-so stories to justify what they want to be true are very, very different from actual scientists doing actual research on actual falsifiable hypotheses in actual evolutionary psychology. Don't let the former fool you into thinking the latter doesn't exist.
- astazangasta 11y agoNot very different, from my perspective as a biologist. Evolutionary psychology is largely about assuming adaptive causes for things you don't bother to do any genetics to confirm. Why are other people killing themselves to prove genetic associations when you can apparently do "science" just by assuming there must be a genetic underpinning to any phenomenon you fancy?