Perplexed comments on Problems in evolutionary psychology - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 13 August 2010 06:57PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 13 August 2010 11:44:59PM 0 points [-]

It's a real science - just one where we would like more data.

<snark> Ah, yes. And that is why, every summer, when teaching duties are completed, the practitioners of evolutionary psych and their graduate students head out into the field to collect more data! </snark>

And Neanderthal resurrection will tell us next to nothing, since we still will have no idea what selective pressures our ancestors faced or what pressures Neanderthal ancestors faced. To say nothing of the difficulty in assessing the differences between Neanderthal psychology and H. sapiens psychology. And even if this weren't a problem, we would still have only two data points to work with.

Comment author: timtyler 14 August 2010 12:03:29AM *  1 point [-]

There's chimps and bonobos - and other primates. That is quite a few "data points" - considering the mountain of information that can be obtained from each of them.