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I've been revisiting Buller's Adapting Minds recently, which has some chapters criticizing alleged "evolved" sex differences. The chapters can stand on their own, but the whole thing is worth reading as it's the most informed critique of evolutionary psychology I've found yet (I'm a bit more "pro-EP" than Buller, but I think most of his criticism is spot on). In any case, it's far more accurate than the picture painted by pop evo psych.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)08:07, 9 December 2011

More work! I've just been digging up a lot of stuff recently for this "cognition and culture" project I've been working on for a while and it seems like stuff you would like. Colin Renfrew is apparently a big shot in "cognitive archaeology," one of his anthologies some interesting stuff on religion. Dahlberg also has a good debunking of Flintstones-esque pop anthropology (though that first chapter is a bit sketchy IMO).

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:29, 13 December 2011

Nice! I can't wait to read this.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage05:45, 13 December 2011

Oh, I'm sure I'll have another entire bookshelf of recommendations by the time I'm done with this thing. It's already fucking gargantuan.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:53, 13 December 2011

Is this a dissertation? A term project? or just a personal project?

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage14:32, 13 December 2011

Term project, though it ended up being a bit more sweeping in scope than I had originally planned.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:58, 13 December 2011
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Yeah, I feel like it would be pretty easy to just swap in relevant case studies while leaving the theoretical parts untouched for another course. Also, found some more for ya.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:10, 13 December 2011

Say when.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:39, 14 December 2011

I just learned that Tanya is a work of Hasidic philo. huh. the things you learn when you do the wrong search in google.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage04:44, 14 December 2011

Wrong searches have made me want to un-learn some things.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:49, 14 December 2011

Luckily, I've never found anything too bothersome. I am really unable to see dead things, especially humans. I try to be very careful when googling some things like middle eastern news. But so far, I've lucked out.

No ugly naked people, strange sexual encounters, etc...

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage05:41, 14 December 2011

I've learned not to click links some people send me.

Anyway, interesting stuff on the "sapient paradox", much of which is admittedly speculative.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)21:58, 14 December 2011