Alas, poor Darwin : arguments against evolutionary psychology

By H. Rose, S. Rose. 2000

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The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “Critics often argue that the claims of evolutionary psychologists are in fact little more than post hoc or ‘‘just-so’’ story-telling (Gould, 1997b; Rose & Rose, 2000).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Specific to memetics is the criticism that culture cannot be divided into discrete units with clearly specified boundaries (Bloch 2000; Midgley 2000).”
Missing the revolution : Darwinism for social scientists (2006, background): “Executive Instinct: Managing the Human Animal in the Information Age. New York: Crown Business. O’Meara, T. (1997). CA Forum on Theory in Anthropology: Causation and the struggle for a science of culture.”
The Human Sciences in a Biological Age (2013, background): “, 1984), as did the simplifications of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and doctrines of ‘the selfish gene’ (Rose and Rose, 2000).”
Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions (2005, background): “…to whom nonbiological audiences are exposed are seen as both representative of biological thought and authoritative in proportion to their tendency to reassure their audiences of the fundamental irrelevance of Darwinism to the human sciences (Gould 1997a, b; Lewontin, 1998; Rose & Rose, 2000).”
Coevolution of economic behaviour and institutions: towards a theory of institutional change (2003, unknown): “As expected, evolutionary psychology, like human sociobiology, has been subject to strong criticism (see, e.g., Rose and Rose, 2000).”
Styles of Scientific Reasoning: A Cultural Rationale for Science Education? (2017, background): “…case of evolution itself a paradigm of which Dobhansky famously noted that “nothing in biology mades sense except in the light of evolution” (Dobhansky, 1973), and a paradigm that has become influential in the psychological and social sciences (Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby, 1992; Rose & Rose, 2010).”
Oscillatory entrainment to our early social or physical environment and the emergence of volitional control (2022, unknown): “(Although it is important to remember that these types of ‘arguments by coincidence’ are unfalsifiable (Rose and Rose, 2010)).”