Comments on: The facts of evolution – and jealousy http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-facts-of-evolution-and-jealousy/ The mind doesn't work if it's closed Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:19:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Marcello http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-facts-of-evolution-and-jealousy/#comment-12070 Marcello Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:14:11 +0000 http://openparachute.wordpress.com/?p=4781#comment-12070 Do you have a listing of the facts of the fossil record? ie: what was found? I am trying to find that and can't seem to find it. Seems like a lot of starting and stopping of species in the rock formations. There's a lot of hand waving and commentary but I can find just the facts. Can you point me in the right direction? Do you have a listing of the facts of the fossil record? ie: what was found?

I am trying to find that and can’t seem to find it. Seems like a lot of starting and stopping of species in the rock formations.

There’s a lot of hand waving and commentary but I can find just the facts.

Can you point me in the right direction?

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]]> By: Konrad Talmont-Kaminski http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/the-facts-of-evolution-and-jealousy/#comment-11039 Konrad Talmont-Kaminski Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:33:43 +0000 http://openparachute.wordpress.com/?p=4781#comment-11039 One qualm I have about what you say it that you only talk about evolutionary psychology whereas there are a number of different approaches to evolutionary explanations of human behaviour: memetics, sociobiology, human behavioural ecology and gene-culture co-evolution. What is more, often evolutionary psychology is not the best developed of the lot. So, what you say about it being speculation - while being true of much of evolutionary psychology is probably less fair a claim to make about much of gene-culture coevolution or human behavioural ecology, two approaches that tend to be much less speculative and a lot more data-driven. This is not to claim that e.p. is garbage and the other approaches all-powerful. I tend to agree with Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown's conclusion - as expressed in their survey of the field, Sense and Nonsense - that a pluralist approach is necessary in this quickly developing area. Thankfully, that is precisely the direction things do seem to be heading in, as evidenced, for example, at this April's European Human Behaviour and Evolution meeting in St. Andrews where evolutionary psychologists and others all mixed together to everyone's benefit. In a sense, I'm just nitpicking but I guess these nits have become fairly significant to me over the last couple of years. One qualm I have about what you say it that you only talk about evolutionary psychology whereas there are a number of different approaches to evolutionary explanations of human behaviour: memetics, sociobiology, human behavioural ecology and gene-culture co-evolution. What is more, often evolutionary psychology is not the best developed of the lot. So, what you say about it being speculation – while being true of much of evolutionary psychology is probably less fair a claim to make about much of gene-culture coevolution or human behavioural ecology, two approaches that tend to be much less speculative and a lot more data-driven. This is not to claim that e.p. is garbage and the other approaches all-powerful. I tend to agree with Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown’s conclusion – as expressed in their survey of the field, Sense and Nonsense – that a pluralist approach is necessary in this quickly developing area. Thankfully, that is precisely the direction things do seem to be heading in, as evidenced, for example, at this April’s European Human Behaviour and Evolution meeting in St. Andrews where evolutionary psychologists and others all mixed together to everyone’s benefit. In a sense, I’m just nitpicking but I guess these nits have become fairly significant to me over the last couple of years.

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