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It's fascinating how humans' generalized behavior manifests itself as differing cultures. That's what I find most fascinating.

reapfreak 6 months ago

When it comes to learning about human behavior in courtship and other areas gender studies sucks!! but evolutionary psychology can seriously help.

themaniusedtob 7 months ago

David Buss changed my life.

ZachRose88 8 months ago

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RunLiberty 9 months ago

Why aren't men queueing up at sperm banks? As I recall, Arthur Dent (AKA The Sandwich Maker) did just that. Not for the progeny, but for the money. The progeny turned out to be a bit of a problem...

sbergman27 1 year ago

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@sbergman27: "Why aren't men queueing up at sperm banks? As I recall, Arthur Dent (AKA The Sandwich Maker) did just that. Not for the progeny, but for the money. The progeny turned out to be a bit of a problem..."

if you make it to part 2, they address this directly:

"sperm banks is a very good example... a naive interpretation of Darwinian theory would queue up at sperm banks..." watch the beginning, from 0:00 to 0:58. good day.

DeAd14EteRNiTy 1 year ago

I have no doubt that PZ Myers was the guy Dawkins was talking about at the start

Iambecome 1 year ago 2

@Iambecome Really? I thought he might have been talking about Peter Singer. (By the way, I'm an immense fan of Dawkins, Buss, Singer AND Myers.)

dan46and2 11 months ago

david buss is a freaking genius

his book the evolution of desire and the dangerous passion are bindblowing and mindopenig. MUST READ !!!!!!

kotsilio 1 year ago 7

@kotsilio I couldn't agree more and I fervently second that notion to anyone who might be reading this. I haven't read any of his other books yet, but those two are GOLDEN. Even if you didn't agree with them for some reason, they would be fascinating nonetheless.

ZachRose88 6 months ago

interesting he talks about jealousy here. Ive always considered jealousy as a manifestation of insecurity. I don't think "unconscious" would be an out of place word at all in this discussion. then again, one of my favorite thinkers is jung... not sure how popular he is with the evolutionary psychologiest.

mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago

I wish our early day psychologists like the neo-freudians and behaviorists would have given a careful thought to Darwin and Co. Psychology would be much more matured field than it is today. The problem with all of them is that they have no basis for their theories. The answer to subconscious, birth order, anxiety etc, is 'because we think so'. It has to be based in biology, as psychology is basically applied biology. So i guess Jung or any odr neo-freudian wont be too popular

caradhye 1 year ago 7

@caradhye I see crucial differences between freud and jung. jung had many interesting ideas, but psychology was still very much a "fuzzy science" back then, and I think theres good reason for that. to me he was as much a philosopher as anything else. it's just one perspective of many. sure evolutionary psychology has it's own way of looking at the human brain and behavior. but I don't think any one school, or any one way of looking at things can ever give us all the answers.

mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago

ANYBODY who thinks human beings don't have instincts are either blind or stupid. it's so obvious!!! do these people REALLY think human beings are not still instinctual animals? what do they make of sex, just to name one thing out of many.

mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago

@mightyafrowhitey Replace instict with urge, you are right there are some things inborn, and that is sex, hunger, thirst etc. But the funny thing is, in our natural world there are so many organisms that do not have sex, never feel hungry the way we do and never drink water. Therefore, these things have naturally occured in some place in our evolutionary history. As far as I know, Evolution does not deny commonly held beliefs, it only explains them.

caradhye 1 year ago