Dmytry comments on Evolutionary psychology: evolving three eyed monsters - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Dmytry 16 March 2012 09:28PM

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Comment author: Dmytry 17 March 2012 07:46:05PM *  0 points [-]

The gazelle sees backwards by moving eyes to the sides rather than by evolving eye on back of the head.

Ignoring the mechanisms is very foolish. edit: also many of the evolutionary psychologists propose a large number of domain specific modules as a mechanism, which is akin to proposing back eye as the means by which gazelle sees backwards. The gazelle ain't going to evolve the eye on back of the head, it got 2 eyes which it can move around gradually.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 March 2012 07:47:53PM 1 point [-]

Not when most of your evidence is in the form of observations of behavior rather than counting number of eyes.

Comment author: Dmytry 18 March 2012 03:11:01AM 0 points [-]

then don't be making claims about number of eyes, that's the point about evo-psych and the cognitive modules of theirs.