Evolutionary psychology is mostly garbage.

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Did our psyches evolve? Are human behaviors and thoughts subject to natural selection? If you ask an evolutionary psychologist, they would say yes, nearly every human action has a biological explanation. And yet, many take issue with this perspective and with the field of evolutionary psychology as a whole. It's sometimes seen as a fringe field. In this video, I outline my own thoughts regarding evolutionary psychology and some of the big issues that hold it back from being taken more seriously.

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Burke, Darren. “Why Isn't Everyone an Evolutionary Psychologist?” Frontiers in Psychology, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00910.

Holcomb, Harmon R. “Just so Stories and Inference to the Best Explanation in Evolutionary Psychology.” doi:10.1007/bf00389657.

Lloyd, Elisabeth A., and Marcus W. Feldman. “COMMENTARY: Evolutionary Psychology: A View From Evolutionary Biology.” doi:10.1207/s15327965pli1302_04.

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