Nornagest comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 12 March 2013 04:29:55AM 7 points [-]

It's not evolutionary psychology so much, but I've seen quite a volume of evolutionary just-so stories in the field of diet and nutrition: everyone from raw vegans to proponents of diets based on meat and animal fats seems eager to justify their findings by reference to the EEA. Generally, the more vegetarian a diet, the more its proponents will focus on our living hominid relatives; the more carnivorous, the more the focus is on the recent evolutionary environment.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 March 2013 01:51:39AM 3 points [-]

Generally, the more vegetarian a diet, the more its proponents will focus on our living hominid relatives;

Which aren't exactly vegetarian.

Comment author: Desrtopa 13 March 2013 03:42:06AM 5 points [-]

Which serves as a reminder that those who tend to craft evolutionary arguments are not only those who can do so accurately.