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Writing tagged: ‘sociobiology’

Unfalsifiable chaff

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

Published 29-Jan-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: evolutionary psychology, literature, sociobiology

How The Woman Got Her Wiggle…an evolutionary Just-So story

The misleading message in a woman's walk.

Published 03-Dec-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: evolutionary psychology, sociobiology

Menopause for thought

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

Published 19-Sep-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: ageing, evolutionary psychology, genetics, menopause, sociobiology

Stop anthropomorphising!

Evolutionary psychologists are at it again!

Published 04-Aug-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: apes, evolutionary psychology, orang-utans, sociobiology, soundbite science

Evolutionary Just-So Stories

Desmond Morris's specious explanation for kissing.

Published 24-May-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: desmond morris, evolutionary psychology, sociobiology

All very interesting, but so what?

Sociobiology always seems to leave me underwhelmed.

Published 20-Jan-2007
Filed under: Blog Tags: evolutionary psychology, eye colour, eyes, psychology, sexual selection, sociobiology

Tenuous links

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.

Published 06-Sep-2006
Filed under: Blog Tags: apes, chimpanzees, evolutionary psychology, human behaviour, sociobiology

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