timtyler comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 06 May 2011 10:00:03PM 2 points [-]

To my mind, the big problem with evolutionary psychology is that it displaces this very straightforward kind of science.

To my mind, the big problem with evolutionary psychology is that it tries to boil everything down to advantages to DNA - and usually pays insufficient attention to the possibility that memes are what have benefitted instead.