'Isn't evolutionary psychology just a bunch of unfalsifiable speculation, since we can never really know what happened in the past?' *ignores cosmology, paleontology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, genetics, classics, history, etymology, etc*https://twitter.com/iatemuggles/status/1000517105412911105 …
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Unfalsifiable isn't the point. Non-explanatory is. All those other classes of theory have good (hard to vary) explanations.
You think sexual selection theory isn't a good explanation of behavioral sex differences?
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It's a good explanation for non-humans. But explaining differences in human behaviour via genes quickly runs counter to human universality.
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How does a universal explanation of sex differences across tens of millions of species, including universal sex differences in humans across cultures, run counter to human universality? Doesn't it highlight our shared humanity?
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Confused non-biologist here: how does sexual selection make sense as an analog to natural selection? It seems a totally different abstraction level - a roundabout way to say "because design lock-in/cost pressures/etc in mind design". As described here: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/an-evolutionary-biologist-misrepresents-sexual-selection/amp/ …
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It's a special case of natural selection *of genes*.
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