^^^^^ CB: The evpsych error is not so much that humans have evolved biologically from the time of species origin , but that the evpsych misrepresent in a Social Darwinist manner what humans were like at origin. And they understate the determining factor of culture in shaping human individuals.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> They believe that certain groups of people are inherently smarter than others. They write books about how rape is a natural part of human evolution. And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary
> psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into
> the spotlight: evopsych douchebags.
> Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy — witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence
> for years. Then there was the case of Diederik Stapel, whose social
> psychology work shared a lot of territory with evopsych. He came forward in late 2011 to admit that most of his data was sheer invention.
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> http://io9.com/the-rise-of-the-evolutionary-psychology-douchebag-757550990
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