From: Jay Hanson
You haven't been keeping up CB. Evolutionary psychology is quickly becoming the ONLY psychology. Many free peer-reviewed papers can be found here http://www.epjournal.net/ ^^^^^ CB: Maybe its psychology, but it hasn't replaced anthropology. Ev Psych's thousands of papers don't save it anymore than the thousands of peer reviewed papers based on rational utility maximization save that theory. Why does Ev Psych set up a whole structure of peers outside the discipline of its subject matter ? As to evolutionary theory, Darwin, Mendel, population genetics , etc. are a central principles of biological anthropological research. Surely you've heard of the anthropologists Raymond Dart and the Leakeys , etc, who, as early as the 1920's, found the fossils of the species from which we derived; they got hominid bones galore. They worked within an evolutionary theoretical framework. You know anthros teach u early that we are primates, and evolved from ancestor primate species. Thus, primatology is a chunk of anthro. Then monkeys , then apes , then missing links, anthropithecines like homo erectus, then us. You know upright posture, opposable thumb, shrinking of big jaws, larger brain, tool making, language, culture Here are a couple of my teachers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_B._Livingstone After his retirement in 1998, Livingstone was awarded the Charles R. Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA).[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Loring_Brace Oh yeah, anthropologists know about human evolution (smile). That is, human _nature_. All of the fossil data that would be the basis for any theorizing on our evolutionary emergence and development is collected by paleo_anthropologist_s. Did the Ev Psychs not notice this ? The evolutionary development of human psychology is part of anthropology. ^^^^^^^^ A book search on Amazon finds over a thousand results: http://tinyurl.com/275rl2d Moreover, see the comments below. Although the snip is over twelve years old, it's still the best mini-explanation of why evolutionary psychology is so valuable. Jay _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
