[ExI] Evolutionary psychology and religion

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 12:20:48 UTC 2007


On Dec 10, 2007 6:16 AM, hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
> Subject: [EP_group] Evolutionary psychology and religion
> Reply-To: EP_group at yahoogroups.com
>
> Attempting to inject more light than heat into this.
>
> Evolutionary psychology makes the claim that *every* human
> psychological trait is either the result of direct selection for the
> trait in the EEA or a side effect of some trait that was selected.
> (Plus a few corner cases that might have been fixed by random effects.)

Do you imply that evolutionary psychology underestimate by definition
the effect of genetic drift? Why should it be the case?

Stefano Vaj



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