Rex Kerr
1 min readDec 13, 2022

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Can you please share a description of evolutionary psychology from any standard source (a textbook, Wikipedia, whatever), pointing out clearly and unambiguously where it is a key premise that we are to "look at the past 5 or 6 thousand years and one particular type of Western social organization"?

(Hint: you can't use Wikipedia after all, because its description includes "Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations,[7] including the abilities to infer others' emotions, discern kin from non-kin, identify and prefer healthier mates, and cooperate with others.". Emphasis mine.)

Debunking a stupid idea--even a common one--that has been offered by a field is not the same as debunking the entire field. It does suggest that there are problems, but you didn't say "evolutionary psychology has a WEIRD problem, here's an example"--most psychology has a WEIRD problem--but rather that you were debunking the entire field.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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