EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY IS HERE TO STAY: A RESPONSE TO BULLER

[Dash87]

1. While I don't doubt all Evo-psych, I hate when it's used to describe certain things it shouldn't.

For example, attraction - you can find 1000 different people and they'll all be attracted to different things, where as Evo-psych needlessly simplifies attraction into simplistic ideas like "macho men are more attractive to everyone everywhere" and "women evolved to be more nurturing!" Both of these are hackish (and false) conclusions.

Evo-psych as a whole is interesting, but should also be taken with a grain of salt, imo. Some of it borders on pseudoscience (if not being outright). I don't like how it tends to dehumanized humans and reduce them to unthinking slaves of their biology. I tend to favor studies of social constructs and how culture influences humanity over the "we're animals and will never be more than raging, unthinking monkeys! (Hyperbole)" form of thinking.