Interesting assertions, Barkley; I’ll check Chapter 9 when I get a chance. Meanwhile, I trust Tooby more than I trust you, to put it bluntly, to tell me what evolutionary theorists think of Gould. Of all Gould’s critics, Tooby has directly earned my trust: The Psychological Foundations of Culture (Tooby and Cosmides) is one of my top five favorite science papers of all time and a marvel of precise thinking. Evolutionary psychology is perhaps the only field that demands and delivers even more careful thinking than evolutionary biology.
And every time I’ve ever encountered an idea of Gould’s, it has been cloudy thinking dressed up with cloudy words. “Separate magisteria”? Give me a break. So I can see perfectly well for myself that he’s running a bluff.
Interesting assertions, Barkley; I’ll check Chapter 9 when I get a chance. Meanwhile, I trust Tooby more than I trust you, to put it bluntly, to tell me what evolutionary theorists think of Gould. Of all Gould’s critics, Tooby has directly earned my trust: The Psychological Foundations of Culture (Tooby and Cosmides) is one of my top five favorite science papers of all time and a marvel of precise thinking. Evolutionary psychology is perhaps the only field that demands and delivers even more careful thinking than evolutionary biology.
And every time I’ve ever encountered an idea of Gould’s, it has been cloudy thinking dressed up with cloudy words. “Separate magisteria”? Give me a break. So I can see perfectly well for myself that he’s running a bluff.
The Psychological Foundations of Culture is my favorite. What are your other four?