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Re:virus: Evolutionary Psychology chat tonight 2100h CST
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[David Lucifer] Evolutionary Psychology chat tonight 2100h CST
Evolutionary psychology primer>> http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
http://virus.lucifer.com/wiki/VirusWeeklyChat
[rhinoceros] If you want to find some ready objections to or defenses of evolutionary psychology for today's chat in #virus, here is an interesting 11-page article:
Essay Review Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned By Robert Kurzban
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.html or in PDF format http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.pdf
The objections addressed, successfully or not:
First Charge: Genetic Determinism Second Charge: Panadaptationism Third Charge: Unfalsifiable hypotheses Fourth Charge: Proximate Explanations Fifth Charge: Evolutionary Claims are Political, not Scientific
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