Hammer and nail? To an evolutionary biologist every change looks like biological evolution. I wonder what the name of this particular cognitive bias is.
Hammer and nail? To an evolutionary biologist every change looks like biological evolution.
I would have guessed that to an evolutionary biologist every change looks like another chance for a confused layman to misuse and trivialize their whole field of study.
Hammer and nail? To an evolutionary biologist every change looks like biological evolution. I wonder what the name of this particular cognitive bias is.
I would have guessed that to an evolutionary biologist every change looks like another chance for a confused layman to misuse and trivialize their whole field of study.
Your post is not 100% clear—but if you’re suggesting that Mark Pagel is a confused layman, he isn’t—he really is an evolutionary biologist.
(No, responding to generalisation.)
That doesn’t seem entirely fair—there is a real relationship based on universal darwinism.
This was recognised by B. F. Skinner, Roger Sperry, William Calvin—and now many others.