
Siri Hustvedt and Lisa Appignanesi
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Disadvantages of Neo-Darwinist Evolutionary Psychology
I'm a great supporter of evolution. I love Darwin, but this neo-Darwinist evolutionary psychology is just plain dumb. When you start to look closely at this stuff, it is really. And they've invented all these little folk tales about men on the savanna with their spears in the Playstosine era material we don't know about. They are linking it to a computational model of the brain with modules. You know, the real brain does not seem to have these modules. So if you notice, Pinker seems to be writing about how to write a nice prose sentence these days. He seems to have abandoned some of these positions because actually neuroscience has outstripped them
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