That which produces great progress in evolutionary theory is inconsistent with building a strong academic carreer in any field. Result: 1. EvoPsych always disappoints. 2. The public has no incling of the insight, health and liberation that could be unlocked with good Darwinism.https://twitter.com/Barryakers6/status/1018938451813588992 …
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And actually, if you read carefully the description tells you what you need to know. The field has amazing promise. It is on the verge of answering the most important questions. If you want to be current, you need this book. Should I check back in another generation, then?
This sounds like a conversation that's worth having at greater length in a more conducive medium. I'm surprised you're so negative about ev psych, when to me, it's just mainstream evo theory applied to human behavioral adaptations.
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Agree about the venue. Before we drop it, though, let's be clear about what I am saying. Evo Psych should be earthshattering: Evo Bio of Humans. But the field is "stuck", as most fields are. The synopsis of Buss's handbook could literaly have been written 20 years ago.
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I'm *not* saying that Evo Psych is uniquely stuck, or that there's something wrong with the field's leaders. And I'm not exempting evolutionary biology. Perverse incentives in the academic system have caused a widespread failure.
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I am not an evolutionary psychologist myself, but I happen to work in a department where some of my colleagues do excellent work in that field, mostly using game theoretic simulations to generate (and test) predictive theories of human behavior. None of them is an ideologue.
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I’d definitely be interested in listening to that.
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