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Bonobo

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6. Yes, it is a complex and multi-layered matter to be sure.

Reply to Gravitycollapse (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 08:51 PM

Oct 2013

But I disagree that it is entirely the process of socialization is behind what people find attractive.

The larger point is, that, claiming that millions of years of evolution has no effect on the substructures of the human brain that influence behavior is really silly.

In animals, the roles of men and women have affected their evolution -this is undeniable. To pretend that such influence ends above where the brain begins is not credible.

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EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY IS HERE TO STAY: A RESPONSE TO BULLER [View all] Bonobo Oct 2013 OP

While I don't doubt all Evo-psych, I hate when it's used to describe certain things it shouldn't. Dash87 Oct 2013 #1

Excess in anything is bad. Bonobo Oct 2013 #2

Evolutionary psychology, for the most part, is no more falsifiable than blank slate theories. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #3

Instincts. Bonobo Oct 2013 #4

That you have so nonchalantly confined sexuality so tightly is extremely problematic. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #5

Yes, it is a complex and multi-layered matter to be sure. Bonobo Oct 2013 #6

Maybe Jews are just naturally more greedy. Maybe black people naturally have a lower average IQ. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #7

I think a descent into absurdities does not invalidate the approach. Bonobo Oct 2013 #8

There are in fact clearly environmental effects that alter the physicality of an animal... Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #9

No doubt. Bonobo Oct 2013 #10

So thus we have shifted away from "how much" to "when." Which is an important distinction. Gravitycollapse Oct 2013 #11

I don't know anyone here who said it was ALWAYS in play, but Bonobo Oct 2013 #12