sociobiology – The Friends of Charles Darwin

Unfalsifiable chaff

I am unimpressed by the latest 'explanation' from the world of evolutionary psychology.

The misleading message in a woman's walk.

They're at it again. Sociobiologists are looking for evolutionary explanations for phenomena that don't seem to need them.

Evolutionary psychologists are at it again!

Desmond Morris's specious explanation for kissing.

Sociobiology always seems to leave me underwhelmed.

I'm sure we can learn certain things about human behaviour by studying chimps, but I can't help feeling people read far too much into such studies.