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Darwin & Philosophy - #558

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The Picking of Traits Is Wrong

Sociobiology is a way of explaining human behavior in terms of evolutionary factors. It's easy to sort of take things that are basically ust gender biases, right? Like peopleo men are like this and women are like that - which are not actually backed up empirically. And sometimes wat what looks like a trait from our perspective may not be exactly howbut it gets causally impacted at the genetic level or at the level of survival or population dynamics. The theory of evolution is excellent science. Evolutionary psychology is barely science at all. With a scientific sheik, yes, o im.

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