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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Do you mean that you have demonstrated that a given trait has the hallmarks of positive selection in the genome?
Genomic evidence of recent selective sweeps is not how adaptations are analyzed anywhere in animal behavior or evolutionary biology.
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Well, now that's not true. There's a wealth of literature for human traits. Tho' interpretation can be hard.
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Adaptationism is about assessing fit between phenotypic design features and putative adaptive functions. Not about genomic evidence.
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Also, what do you mean by 'recent'?
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