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Back to the drawing board on evolution
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GEOFFREY MILLER ALAS, POOR DARWIN: Arguments Against Evolutionary
Psychology edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose (Cape, 18.99)
TIRESOME, predictable and badly researched, this 15-essay collection
offers no coherent arguments against evolutionary psychology, but
reveals instead the collective intellectual bankruptcy of its editors
and contributors. The "evolutionary psychology" castigated here is
not the modern science of human nature as it is actually developing,
but a simplified, outdated...
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Bad behaviour; Evolutionary psychology.(!)(Review)
The Economist (US)
; ALAS, POOR DARWIN: ARGUMENTS AGAINST EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY. ACCORDING to evolutionary psychology, most of our actions, emotions and beliefs-including the sexual attractiveness of Donald Trump, the popularity of cheeseburgers and the crime of rape-are the products of natural selection that acted
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Why evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation or "just so" stories: with examples from human sexuality and from narratives.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
; Contrary to what some of its opponents claim, evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation, or just so stories which are incapable of being tested. Many believe these critiques. In fact, a former colleague of mine, now a journal editor, recently stated them to me in an e-mail. He mentioned
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Wednesday Book: A ride on Darwin's bandwagon
The Independent - London
; DARWIN'S SPECTRE: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD BY MICHAEL R ROSE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, pounds 18.95 IN THE Twenties, the noted Harvard physiologist WJ Crozier warned his students against abandoning "proper" biological disciplines such as physiology and anatomy for the attractions
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Roses are red, violets are blue. So what? Valentine's Day comes at a time when a rash of new Darwinist thinkers are claiming that love is controlled by evolution. Do we have to listen? Of course not.
The Independent - London
; ... monkey's nose, and risks that bring no benefit at all. A book published last week, Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps, by Allan and Barbara Pease, explains why men can't find missing socks and butter in terms of million-year-old propensities ...
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Sex, Jealousy, and Violence
Skeptic
; A Skeptical Look at Evolutionary Psychology IN NEARLY EVERY NEWSPAPER or magazine these days you can find evolutionary explanations for a variety of human behaviors-for what we seek in mates, why we are sometimes unfaithful, why we love our children (but not our stepchildren), why men and women
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