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[edit] Evo psych cont'd

Fair enough. I'm more sympathetic to the critics myself, though I think there are some fairly naff criticisms of capital EP as well (e.g. Rose and Rose 2000). These also annoy me because the EP partisans can cherry-pick them and then use them to dismiss all criticism. I have a cognitive science background and our guys (e.g., Chomsky, Fodor) aren't terribly fond of them either, but I think evolutionary approaches could be very useful to the field if they were done with some semblance of rigor. Atran and Sperber are coming from a cognitive anthropology perspective, and they seem to be positioning themselves as internal dissidents (any wonder they tend to be left out of the brand-name texts?). Do you know of any more recent Lewontin material on the topic? I agree with a lot of what Lewontin and Gould had to say in spirit, though I think they were prone to overplaying their hand and batting down straw men to some extent (which can be said of their opponents as well). Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:20, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

I've seen a few deliciously snarky critiques of EP from paleoarchaeologists. I'll have to find those again. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 06:36, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
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