Hard agree. Evolutionary psychology is the art of theory built on a shaky bedrock of wild suppositionhttps://twitter.com/Caimekaze/status/1046912919290576896 …
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Replying to @GidMK
You’re just saying that because your ancestors lived in caves where they had shaky bedrocks and now we’re wary of them.
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Replying to @POhukainen
How dare you my ancestors huddled in leaky huts, I know this because of my propensity to create house-shaped Lego structures as a child
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Replying to @GidMK
Haha
But to be fair, I actually think evopsych makes a lot of sense in principle. I mean, of course our minds have evolved for certain things like everything else. It’s just that teasing out specific adaptations is really, really hard.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Yeh that's basically what I think too! Our minds have clearly evolved, but linking a specific behaviour to an evolutionary driver is nigh on impossible in most cases
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