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Jesse
March 16, 2010 at 12:21 am
I voted for item 2. However, I believe there is a problem with the question design, insofar as evolutionary psychology is not a useful method for identifying evolved traits. Perhaps the field has moved on, but isn’t evolutionary psychology mostly a form of speculation about the putative evolutionary origins about presumed differences between social categories (differences that often have no empirical foundation)?
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Jane Gray
March 16, 2010 at 10:47 am
Rosemary Hopcroft has a new intro text that highlights the interface between sociology and biological and life sciences. Actually doesn’t spend too much time on evolutionary psychology: http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-Biosocial-Introduction-Rosemary-Hopcroft/dp/1594518017%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJASE6HSSVXTNREYQ%26tag%3Dsmtfx1-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1594518017
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Michael Bishop
March 16, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I was moved to comment on a particular case of evolutionary psychology on my blog recently: http://permut.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/depressions-upside/
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Michael Bishop
March 16, 2010 at 3:13 pm
“isn’t evolutionary psychology mostly a form of speculation about the putative evolutionary origins about presumed differences between social categories”
This article (free to access) gives an excellent introduction to the subject.
http://www.akademiai.com/content/27m24337080q2302/
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Guillermo
March 16, 2010 at 4:14 pm
[…] evolutionary psychology poll […]
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Echoes and Mirrors » Daily Links
March 16, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Who knew the overlap was so small between here and scatterplot?
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Trey
March 17, 2010 at 11:34 pm
“Who knew the overlap was so small between here and scatterplot?”
I don’t find it surprising at all. The readership of both blogs is very different.
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Guillermo
March 18, 2010 at 3:59 pm