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I am fairly agnostic-to-critical about the whole question of evolutionary
psychology. Much of its claims seem to me to be "true" in an utterly banal and
uninteresting way. Others of its claims strike me as mere speculation that
would be hard to find conclusive evidence for in any case.
What I do agree with though is that there is an often knee-jerk reaction by
leftists against evolutionary psychology because they assume it must
*necessarily* have reactionary political implications. Basically, leftists are
embracing the naturalistic fallacy, the notion that because something exists in
nature, it is necessarily desirable or correct.
It strikes me as odd that leftists would so willingly concede this point to the
political right, especially since advocates of evolutionary psychology
themselves reject it.
If the majority of claims of evolutionary psychologists were to be irrefutably
proven true tomorrow, that would have absolutely *no practical bearing* upon
the correctness or incorrectness of left political positions, one way or the
other. The incorrect perception that this would be the case is already too
much of a concession to the political right who would seek to incorrectly
instrumentalize the claims of evolutionary psychology for political ends.
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