PhilGoetz comments on Some counterevidence for human sociobiology - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 29 August 2009 06:51:29PM *  5 points [-]

Agreed. You can't say "Sociobiology predicts X for every human society".

It's even a bit nonsensical to talk about evidence "against sociobiology". You can talk about evidence against particular sociobiological theories. But the idea that sociobiology itself is bankrupt, and should not be a field of study - that genetics and evolutionary psychology have no influence on human society - is absurd.