Biologist @pzmyers sure does cuss a lot when he's bullying young female evo psych researchers. What a classy guy.https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/08/12/now-that-david-brooks-has-endorsed-it-can-we-declare-evolutionary-psychology-brain-dead-and-pull-the-plug/ …
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the only thing I agree with him here is that people assume every trait is an adaptation and create just-so stories
Nobody does that. I defy you to find any quote from any evolutionary psychologist claiming that every trait is an adaptation.
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Go to http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/epfaq/evpsychfaq_full.html …. Search for "adapt". The whole page lights up like a frickin' xmas tree. Adaptation is your only argument.
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You missed all the passages there about spandrels & byproducts, and how hard it is to show that a trait is an adaptation? Why keep lying?
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