>> Самое печальное, что Sociobiology and Evolutionary psychology - не какие-то эзотерические учения, и даже не затеряны в специальных журналах, а изложены в интересных, популярных книгах таких авторов как E.O.Wilson, Stephen Pinker, and Jared Diamond.
What IS the most upsetting is that the criticism of pop EP is entirely warranted, because having Wilson, Pinker, or Diamond popularizing their creed in the endless torrent of books by no means makes it true. The list of the problems with their approach is very long, and it is not surprising that the most devastating criticism is voiced precisely by evolutionary biologists who know what they are talking about. The last issue of SciAm has an excellent, easily accessible paper on the fallacies of pop EP. I'd suggest you reading this crtique before hopping on the wagon http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=four-fallacies Ignoring Darwinism is one thing, creating "just so stories" dressed in the Darwinian lingo is another thing. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Date: 2009-01-06 10:06 pm (UTC)What IS the most upsetting is that the criticism of pop EP is entirely warranted, because having Wilson, Pinker, or Diamond popularizing their creed in the endless torrent of books by no means makes it true. The list of the problems with their approach is very long, and it is not surprising that the most devastating criticism is voiced precisely by evolutionary biologists who know what they are talking about. The last issue of SciAm has an excellent, easily accessible paper on the fallacies of pop EP. I'd suggest you reading this crtique before hopping on the wagon
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=four-fallacies
Ignoring Darwinism is one thing, creating "just so stories" dressed in the Darwinian lingo is another thing. Not that there is anything wrong with that.