[one objection to E. P. is:] Memetic pressures shaping cultures.
Probably the single biggest problem for E. P. is that its practitioners typically don’t “get” menetics. Pinker is a good example of this.
The issue has been explained in detail in these papers:
Ehrlich, Paul and Feldman, Marcus (2003) Genes and Cultures: What Creates Our Behavioral Phenome? Current Anthropology, Vol 44(1), Feb 2003, 87-107.
Ehrlich, Paul and Feldman, Marcus (2007) Genes, environments & behaviors. Daedalus, Vol. 136, No. 2, Pages 5-12.
The good news is the E. P. and memetics can be bolted together—although the result is then a lot like memetics and not very much like E. P.
The bad news is that without memetics, E. P. is pretty terminally screwed.
Probably the single biggest problem for E. P. is that its practitioners typically don’t “get” menetics. Pinker is a good example of this.
The issue has been explained in detail in these papers:
Ehrlich, Paul and Feldman, Marcus (2003) Genes and Cultures: What Creates Our Behavioral Phenome? Current Anthropology, Vol 44(1), Feb 2003, 87-107.
Ehrlich, Paul and Feldman, Marcus (2007) Genes, environments & behaviors. Daedalus, Vol. 136, No. 2, Pages 5-12.
The good news is the E. P. and memetics can be bolted together—although the result is then a lot like memetics and not very much like E. P.
The bad news is that without memetics, E. P. is pretty terminally screwed.