Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology

Scientific American by David J. Buller | Dec. 21, 2008 (Special Report)

Among Charles Darwin’s lasting legacies is our knowledge that the human mind evolved by some adaptive process.

A major, widely discussed branch of evolutionary psychology—Pop EP—holds that the human brain has many specialized mechanisms that evolved to solve the adaptive problems of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

The author and several other scholars suggest that some assumptions of Pop EP are flawed: that we can know the psychology ... Full Story »

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Topics: Biology, Evolution Debate, Psychology, Science
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Lots of opinions, but without definite scientific, rather than philosophical, references that confirm them, makes for a somewhat interesting read, but nothing to determine the validity of the arguments made.

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