I read that, and many other criticisms, before I bought the book. Some of the criticisms are accurate, others miss, and most there is no real way to decide rationally either way. As for most of the criticisms from the EvoPsych direction, they are of the 3 chapters on specific adaptation claims that I haven’t read, I am more interested in the basis, and especially as I pointed out above the conflict between evo-psyc and neural plasticity which I don’t think even this paper addresses adequately (and the others mostly or entirely ignore). I’m not going to respond any more right now, like I wrote above I need to think through it a bit more.
I read that, and many other criticisms, before I bought the book. Some of the criticisms are accurate, others miss, and most there is no real way to decide rationally either way. As for most of the criticisms from the EvoPsych direction, they are of the 3 chapters on specific adaptation claims that I haven’t read, I am more interested in the basis, and especially as I pointed out above the conflict between evo-psyc and neural plasticity which I don’t think even this paper addresses adequately (and the others mostly or entirely ignore). I’m not going to respond any more right now, like I wrote above I need to think through it a bit more.