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IT AIN?T NECESSARILY SO: 'How much do evolutionary stories reveal about the mind?'
Stephen Jay Gould, NYRB :Darwinian Fundamentalism

David J. Buller - Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique(PDF)

To summarize, the fundamental theoretical tenets of Evolutionary Psychology are these. First, the human mind consists of ??hundreds or thousands?? of ??genetically speci?ed?? modules, or special-purpose computational devices, each of which is an adaptation for solving a speci?c adaptive problem. Second, the information-processing functions of modules are designed to solve the problems of survival and reproduction that were faced by our Pleistocene hunter-gatherer ancestors. And, third, evolved modules collectively constitute a universal human nature. In the sections to follow, I will argue that each of these tenets is mistaken.

Buller's Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature - A Preview (Scientific American) and a review.

University of California at Santa Barbara's Center for Evolutionary Psychology has a rebuttal.

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