[lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0

[Miles Jackson]

Somebody Somebody wrote:
> In essence, the strong opponents of evolutionary psychology, the ones who don't simply reject the field as it's currently constructed under the capitalist regime but oppose the very premise behind it, seem to argue in favor of an Adam and Eve version of human development. 

It may be helpful to consider why one of the preeminent evolutionary 
theorists of the 20th century (Gould) is a "strong opponent" of 
evolutionary psychology.  The claim that all human psychological 
characteristics (e.g., a "sense of fairness") are the result of natural 
selection is in fact inconsistent with evolutionary theory and 
research.  Even Darwin argued that species have many characteristics 
that were not the result of evolutionary processes!

The claim "if X exists in a species, X must be the result of natural 
selection" is a pernicious and simplistic misrepresentation of modern 
evolutionary theory.  The more we ridicule the claim, the better.

Miles