What do you mean by mental adaptations? That we have evolved brains?
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good explanations require independent justification, otherwise they're merely ad-hoc
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What do you want? What would satisfy you that humans have adapted mentally since they were fish but doesn't draw on science?
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We can trace back the origin of the eye and some of the genes who have an impact on it.
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We can't always say the same for the cognitive modules dear to EvoPsych.
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We can't always know why abilities & traits adapted , no, but we can show that they did. Not independently of science tho.
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I'd agree but I think their criticism is something akin to thishttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12052-008-0059-2 …
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That could be motivating it, yes, but what she's actually saying is 'show we differ mentally from fish without using biology.'
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the claim that the mind is adapted is a just-so story if there's no evidence apart from the data the hypothesis was constructed to explain
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