1/ I may be an outlier in my feed in that, I think evopsych is useful and important field (in the abstract), but I agree completely with cesspool complaint.https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/939482486316220416 …
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2/ Say you had a magical, perfect fidelity world simulator. You use it and find that in 100% of all early hominid possible realities, males are more violent then females. Interesting finding! And evolutionary sex-differentiation *is* a good proposed cause for that effect.
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3/ But, using that finding for modern day prescriptive or descriptive purposes is one hell of a Herculean leap. "Males are evolutionarily wired for violence" isn't an argument for "modern males are *necessarily* violent."
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4/ Using the magical world simulator again, you find males are more violent in 99% of all possible contemporary human realities. Again, shit, males are violent! But, it's weird to use that finding to say, "idk, nothing we can do, I guess."
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5/ Culture and society shapes human behavior. Biology does, too. But, if the former can modulate the latter and the argument is that the latter is invariant, then why obsess on the latter?!
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6/ And, obsess *is* the correct word. Evopsych as biological determinism is a fatalistic preoccupation. I want to know how and why our biology effects our behavior. But, I don't want people using that knowledge as sword and shield against cultural change.
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