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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Robert Wright
Publisher: Vintage

Some recent examples I've come across include comments such as: “This new junk science named “evolutionary psychology” is the last variant of the male supremacy bible, following Freud's mythology” and “[the way this article approaches Only an informed public can approach these claims with adequate discernment, so it is important that we address how some claims are morally wrong and incorrect. My favorite part of it is the determination to cast humans as loving, sensual, social creatures rather than the jealous hoarders we often play. But is this a science or just assumption? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? This is a classic book on evolutionary psychology that oddly enough uses Darwin's own life as the story line. 2013) · Animals R Us & We R Them · What is a population? We are guided by two very different processes. Broadly, evolutionary ethics is an attempt to explain how human behavior was formed by the evolutionary process. The first is largely automatic and can loosely be termed .. It would seem that we are victims of our genetic and cultural heritage, a failure that flows logically from Darwin's theory of evolution. €�Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries,” Steven Pinker writes in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: the Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes. If evidence cannot be found then it is un-falsifiable and simply bad science. And if I thought that evolutionary psychologists had a chance in hell of uncovering the “causes” of rape, I'd be all for it. Although Mill wrote extensively on the need for “moral science,” his view of human beings was a mix of classical philosophy (especially Aristotle) and the ideas of personal development he imbibed from the Romantics. These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Which is something that is being actively studied, however evolution has had billions of years to build all of this up we have had only a couple hundred years. What determines the way we behave? Are men literally born to cheat? A new way to think about human sexuality. Wright, The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, Pantheon Books, New York, 1994.