Posted: Apr 19, 2018 10:50 am
Cito di Pense wrote:zoon wrote:Unlike you, PZ Myers doesn't say anywhere that he would like to see more funding for evolutionary psychology, or that he makes a distinction between the useful and the harmful variety.
If what EvPsych has on offer are glib rationalizations, from an evolutionary perspective, 'explaining' (e.g.) how we come to like sitting down and eating sugar, then no, I don't want to see more funding for evolutionary psychology, either. Psychology already contributes a lot of research of dubious value to anyone with a couple of extra neurons to rub together without looking deep into the past to come up with something to tell the creationists.
Evolutionary biology isn't just story telling. We want some actual evidence that supports those stories. That means comparative genetics data must support the stories. Any idiot can sit and just invent adaptive explanations for why humans do X. But it's supposed to be a science.