Nice article here on an important new book by philosopher of science Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana) debunking adaptionist accounts of female sexuality that overreach the evidence, sometimes wildly.
It's an odd situation in America today: on one side, we have hordes of ignorant yahoos--driven by various forms of delusion and without any regard for reason or evidence--denying the foundation of modern biology, the theory of evolution by natural selection; on the other side, we have various social scientists, some ill-informed law professors, and a handful of biologists--driven by various forms of intellectual imperialism and with only slightly more regard for reason and evidence--advancing selectionist ("Darwinian") explanations for a wide range of human behaviors, even though these explanations systematically fail to meet the evidential standards well-established in the biological sciences.
Of course, there can be little doubt as to who is more dangerous.
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