Rationally Speaking #18 - Evolutionary Psychology
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The Evolution of Sexual Selection Theories
evolutionary psychologists readily admit that there are plenty of bad and untestable evolutionary psych theories out there. But nevertheless some evolutionary psychological theories have given rise to testable predictions. So if we're talking about the general claim that certain characteristics are attracted to females for instance let's take having a symmetric face. That would work but again that is not typical of humans, it's not a human uniqueness situation because a lot of other animals show the same thing. We can't measure natural selection really today because I mean we can in human beings but today's environment is significantly different from the ancestral environment. The foster record doesn't tell you much necessarily about ancient selective pressure. Yes, there are some things
