I’ll just add: You can use evopsych to predict present behaviors based on what we actually know of the evolutionary environment (which is what you’re doing). AND you can use evopsych to infer the evolutionary environment based on what we know of present behaviors. But you can’t do both with the same set of facts. That’s what Yud would call “double counting the evidence”
I’ll just add: You can use evopsych to predict present behaviors based on what we actually know of the evolutionary environment (which is what you’re doing). AND you can use evopsych to infer the evolutionary environment based on what we know of present behaviors. But you can’t do both with the same set of facts. That’s what Yud would call “double counting the evidence”
True. Interesting point.
I have no time to wade into evopsych debates, so I am just reading Geoffery Miller’s “Mate”