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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Well, now that's not true. There's a wealth of literature for human traits. Tho' interpretation can be hard.
Adaptationism is about assessing fit between phenotypic design features and putative adaptive functions. Not about genomic evidence.
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Then how can you rule out coincidental matches? Null hypothesis has to be neutral, or nearly neutral evolution.
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We test ever more detailed phenotypic features that would be less and less likely to match adaptive functions by chance. This is all EP 101.
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