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Evolutionary Psychology

've got a review on a book D. Buss synthesizing While I usually feel when I read most of the texts of the heirs inteletuales of sociobiology, mainly based in the field of evolutionary psychology. Think and realize an intelligent comment about it would take me a long time, so I've taken the liberty of just translating the passage where he says what I find most evocative. As the author of the comment, hope you do not misunderstand me: I have high hopes for the field and I have no animosity whatsoever to its principles and approaches. However, informative publications and its role in the marketplace of ideas (not infrequently policies) leaves much to be desired:

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I used this book as a textbook for a course I taught about human behavior. Overall, students felt that they loved, and how to write Buss hooked and it was easy to read. I would agree.

However, I consider this book as the field of evolutionary psychology as a whole, requires a theoretical framework for more rigorous scientific significantly before it can be considered a field that can substantively explain human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Do not get me wrong: the evolutionary hypothesis can bring a lot of specific human behaviors. However, I would have liked to see much more discussion about what is science, what constitutes a valid scientific argument, as false a particular scenario. These issues could be addressed in a few pages and I think that could help develop or perhaps even justify some of the arguments presented in the text. As it stands now, the book seems more an apologetic and, as leaf through the pages, I have the same feeling I experience when I am "pamphlet" for evangelicals. Buss's arguments are full of generalizations: studies of children in school are extrapolated to the entire human species, studies of plumage color birds are used to argue about disadvantages in humans, and so goes on. There are phrases that make extraordinary claims significantly displayed without reference, and there are phrases that point to trivial matters accompanied by six references.

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