I cannot stress this enough; you cannot determine evolutionar basises for behavior. Evo psych is not science. They're making up explanations for observed behaviors after the fact that are nonfalsifiable. It is literally just rape apologia. No serious person in any field take evopsych seriously and they should never be allowed a platform.
Evopsych is fundamentally rectionary because it's entire goal is to create justification for the current state of affairs by asserting that they are the result of biological and evolutionary processes.
I cannot stress this enough; you cannot determine evolutionar basises for behavior.
Why though, isn't that something you can generally do for other species?
Evopsych is fundamentally rectionary because it’s entire goal is to create justification for the current state of affairs by asserting that they are the result of biological and evolutionary processes.
This is true in regards to the general practice of "Evolutionary Psychology" as a field of human social theory though, true.
I disagree, as I am the one good evopsych enjoyer. I am fascinated by evolutionary explanations of altruism, and I have a lot of education in evolutionary biology. I am interested in the ways that human evolution has given us the tools and the instincts to become social (damn near eusocial) animals. In the end, we have more in common with any eusocial creature than with chimps when it comes to behavior. That could be either be the result of something genotypic, but it could also be something our fancy brains have reasoned out. Either way, it's evopsych.
But I will admit, ironically there are no good places to read about this topic within "evopsych" literature. The closest is books like Unto Others (a book any champion of scientific communism ought to be familiar with), which are basically all within the larger label of evolutionary biology. So maybe evopsych is too fouled and needs ME, the one good evopsych enjoyer, to replace it.
I cannot stress this enough; you cannot determine evolutionar basises for behavior. Evo psych is not science. They're making up explanations for observed behaviors after the fact that are nonfalsifiable. It is literally just rape apologia. No serious person in any field take evopsych seriously and they should never be allowed a platform.
Evopsych is fundamentally rectionary because it's entire goal is to create justification for the current state of affairs by asserting that they are the result of biological and evolutionary processes.
For sure.
Why though, isn't that something you can generally do for other species?
This is true in regards to the general practice of "Evolutionary Psychology" as a field of human social theory though, true.
I disagree, as I am the one good evopsych enjoyer. I am fascinated by evolutionary explanations of altruism, and I have a lot of education in evolutionary biology. I am interested in the ways that human evolution has given us the tools and the instincts to become social (damn near eusocial) animals. In the end, we have more in common with any eusocial creature than with chimps when it comes to behavior. That could be either be the result of something genotypic, but it could also be something our fancy brains have reasoned out. Either way, it's evopsych.
But I will admit, ironically there are no good places to read about this topic within "evopsych" literature. The closest is books like Unto Others (a book any champion of scientific communism ought to be familiar with), which are basically all within the larger label of evolutionary biology. So maybe evopsych is too fouled and needs ME, the one good evopsych enjoyer, to replace it.