The Scientific Method and Evolutionary Psychology: Assessing the Lack of Novel, Testable Predictions

2300 words Introduction The field of evolutionary psychology (EP hereafter) was formed in the 1990s by Tooby, Cosmides, and Barkow, which was a kind of cousin to E. O. Wilson’s Sociobioligy. They surmised that “[t]he human brain is a set of computational machines, each of which was designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems … Continue reading The Scientific Method and Evolutionary Psychology: Assessing the Lack of Novel, Testable Predictions