The Countless Controversies of Evolutionary Psychology

Time Stamps:
0:00 What is evolutionary psychology?
2:34 EP has few clinical applications
3:33 The naturalistic fallacy
6:27 Support from bigoted circles
10:15 EP hyper-focuses on sex differences
12:40 These alleged sex differences are used to justify human rights violations
15:08 EP often gets used as manosphere ammunition
18:36 EP often ignores the role of social factors
23:12 We know very little about our ancestors
25:06 Just-so stories
26:40 Neural plasticity threatens the modularity hypothesis
27:35 The time machine argument: we cannot know these changes came from adaptation
28:40 EP is too predeterministic and reductionistic
29:45 Conclusions

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