Skeptic, January 1st, 2007
Where Evolutionary Psychology Fails
THERE WAS A MINOR ANNIVERSARY IN THE history of evolutionary psychology in 2006. It was 40 years since an embryonic theory of friendship first emerged. Darwin himself had speculated on the value of "aiding fellows" in The Descent of Man. He suggested that it might start from the "low motive" of learning that giving to others would lead to receiving from them in return. Such an exchange could become a habit that would more properly be called sympathy, and from that friendship would arise. What he could not explain was how such habits might be passed from gen...
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