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 14 August 2010 12:55:00AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, but what does this have to do with evolutionary psychology? The wiki article on Wilson never mentions evolutionary psychology. When I Google for "Wilson evolutionary psychology", I find this complaint that Wilson doesn't like "evolutionary psychology" even though the author wants to claim Wilson as the founder of the discipline.

So lets have Exhibit 2. [Edit: minor typo]

Comment author: timtyler 14 August 2010 07:23:00AM *  0 points [-]

The quote seems to be:

"Today, my only complaint is that Wilson has never really embraced the word usage of "evolutionary psychology" and prefers that we consider it nothing more than "human sociobiology"."

Sociobiology came first - evolutionary psychology is a more modern offshoot that only deals with human universals and mostly ignores human culture.