Kaj_Sotala comments on LINK: Most of EvoPsych is pseudoscience - Less Wrong Discussion
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Didn't read the article, but at least based on the excerpts, it sounds like many of these are pretty common misunderstandings of evopsych. E.g.
is quite weak, as discussed in Barrett & Kurzban 2006:
Most of the other numbered points in the second list also seem to be based on similar misunderstandings/misrepresentations of the field.
To the extend that a single developmental modular process leads to multiple architectual modules, it's a reasonable argument that it's improper to analyse the evolutionary advantages of a single architectual module without knowing looking at the other achitectual modules that spring out of the same developmental modular process.
That sounds like a much more reasonable criticism than the ones presented in the OP.