Episode 26: Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Evidence in Adaptive Psychology
An evolutionary psychologist should have evidence of heritability before giving an adaptive explanation for a complex trait. If you don't have evidence then is the old just-so-story accusation that Stephen J. Gould leveled, he says. "Sometimes just- so-stories just so happen to make a lot of sense"
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