So, evopsych is always, by its nature, highly speculative. But this one takes the prize: the evolutionary psychology of extraterrestrial intelligence?? Data n=0, good luck testing your hypotheses...https://philpapers.org/rec/TODTEP
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No, I don’t think it is. How on earth does one get to know the likely evolutionary pathways to intelligence with n=1 on this planet and n=0 as far as anywhere else?
So you think optimal foraging theory, costly signaling theory, and exaptation theory only apply on earth? Why?
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You don’t think that’s a bit of a straw man? No, I said only that one cannot speculate on the “likely” evolution of intelligence with n=1 on earth and n=0 elsewhere. We have literally thousands of studies on the theories you mention.
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