Having skimmed your paper, I think the wikipedia quote is adequate and more appropriate simply because it's shorter:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology#Testability > Leda Cosmides argued in an interview: > > "Those who have a professional knowledge of evolutionary biology know > that it is not possible to cook up after the fact explanations of just any > trait. There are important constraints on evolutionary explanation. More to > the point, every decent evolutionary explanation has testable predictions > about the design of the trait. For example, the hypothesis that pregnancy > sickness is a byproduct of prenatal hormones predicts different patterns of > food aversions than the hypothesis that it is an adaptation that evolved to > protect the fetus from pathogens and plant toxins in food at the point in > embryogenesis when the fetus is most vulnerable – during the first trimester. > Evolutionary hypotheses – whether generated to discover a new trait or to > explain one that is already known – carry predictions about the nature of > that trait. The alternative – having no hypothesis about adaptive function – > carries no predictions whatsoever. So which is the more constrained and sober > scientific approach?" Given that, we can move back to Jordan Peterson and ask: Are there any testable hypotheses for this "alpha male" concept Peterson peddles to his "masculinity" fanboys? On 02/14/2018 10:48 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Once the two extreme positions have been set aside, we are left in the messy > middle. > > > > */Under what circumstances and in which domains does knowledge of human > evolutionary history have anything to contribute to our understanding of > contemporary human behavior? /* > > > > I would love to have a sustained, thoughtful discussion of this question on > this list. It is very close to my heart. Because I don’t have time, right > now, to write a screed, or even a rant, I shall fall back on that practice > favored by all academic scoundrels: I shall cite one of my own papers. > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302220782_My_Descent_from_the_Monkey> > (If this link doesn’t work, could somebody let me know, please?) -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
