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I Don't Want to Put a Gong on You, Nick, but You Have Your History Wrong
I regard claims about the innate structure of the human mind as pernicious in a variety of ways. I don't think it's good enough to do this peculiar thing of saying, the people before, the sociobiologists or these quotes pop evolutionary psychologists are wrong, but we've got it right now. That's not the way that science proceeds and simply to dismiss the others on the grounds that you guys who are at your private conferences are doing the real work is ignoring the main claims that are being made. This struck me as an extremely interesting line of inquiry,. We should actually engage with particular issues and see how those work out. Let's talk about the substance.