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redqueen

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30. Yes, evolutionary biology is solid science.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #27)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 06:23 PM

Feb 2013

Evolutionary psychology, not so much. And not at all where differences between the sexes are concerned.

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Nature vs Nurture? – Why We Need to Stop Using Evolution as an Explanation for Gender Differences [View all] ismnotwasm Feb 2013 OP

Thank you, thank you, thank you, ismnotwasm! patrice Feb 2013 #1

Hey have one from me! ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #2

Thank you, very much! patrice Feb 2013 #3

K&R Tien1985 Feb 2013 #4

Heh ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #5

right there with you tein. we finally get the sexual freedom in the 70's and 80's and seabeyond Feb 2013 #8

Interesting read, thanks for posting it! Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #6

men have a naturally stronger sex drive than women. seabeyond Feb 2013 #7

The title is quite an unjustified leap. Jim Lane Feb 2013 #9

No, the headline is fine. It includes this condition: "... as an Explanation for Gender Differences" redqueen Feb 2013 #10

Even with regard to gender differences, it goes too far. Jim Lane Feb 2013 #11

first, the consistent problem i have repeatedly found is a guess is put out as fact and conditioning seabeyond Feb 2013 #12

The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ seabeyond Feb 2013 #13

^^THIS^^ longship Feb 2013 #29

Verbose ... redqueen Feb 2013 #14

You stopped just when it was getting interesting. Jim Lane Feb 2013 #21

Disagree. MadrasT Feb 2013 #15

Exellent point. nt redqueen Feb 2013 #16

"Well, we'll just call it evolution because nobody can prove it isn't." but they can. that is what seabeyond Feb 2013 #17

You're disagreeing with a straw man. Jim Lane Feb 2013 #19

no. i think what youa re ignoring is that there is a movement at hand to use this against women seabeyond Feb 2013 #20

I was addressing a different point. Jim Lane Feb 2013 #22

from the 80's on reading evo psych, it has shown that it is riddled with agenda. this is what seabeyond Feb 2013 #25

You wrote: MadrasT Feb 2013 #23

I thought I explained that in #19 Jim Lane Feb 2013 #24

when it is your gender being DENIED equal pay, jobs, rights, control, BECAUSE of a seabeyond Feb 2013 #26

"must be tested against the available data" redqueen Feb 2013 #28

So which traits do you believe are affected by evolution? ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #32

You might pose that question to the author of the article you linked. Jim Lane Feb 2013 #43

So your main problem is with the headline? ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #44

Schrodinder's Evo-Psych? ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #34

Oh that hunting thing again. ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #18

"AS THE ONLY EXPLANATION" makes it work. TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #37

Did 'forced equality' in the US result in EVEN WORSE ABUSES for freed slaves? redqueen Feb 2013 #38

In a good many ways yes. Look how long after the Civil war... TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #39

No one is pretending anything. Reinforcing patriarchal crap with 'just so' stories is bullshit. redqueen Feb 2013 #40

And how many thousands of women will die, ARE DYING... TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #41

Um... wtf? America enforces feminism? Where the fuck did you get that idea?! redqueen Feb 2013 #42

So its the American feminists fault sufrommich Feb 2013 #45

Trichromatic color vision is carried in the X chromosome Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #27

Yes, evolutionary biology is solid science. redqueen Feb 2013 #30

There is good science, and there is bad science... Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #33

There's is no argument about physical differences ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #31

Math is not a random skill. Well, maybe statistics is. Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #35

Heh! ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #36

Like so much junk science One_Life_To_Give Feb 2013 #46