Books & Articles Darwin Was Wrong About Dating

[Thinkingenigma]

"...A new cohort of scientists have been challenging the very existence of the gender differences in sexual behavior that Darwinians have spent the past 40 years trying to explain and justify on evolutionary grounds.

Of course, no fossilized record can really tell us how people behaved or thought back then, much less why they behaved or thought as they did. Nonetheless, something funny happens when social scientists claim that a behavior is rooted in our evolutionary past. Assumptions about that behavior take on the immutability of a physical trait — they come to seem as biologically rooted as opposable thumbs or ejaculation."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/opini ... =all&_r=1&

Thoughts?

 

[Chase]

I read that. Pretty weak attempt at refuting Darwin... it's basically a headline grab. The whole second page is about how, well, yeah, it is kind of stemming out of evolution after all.

The argument doesn't even refute a Darwinian basis for "dating." It refutes specific behaviors' evolutionary underpinnings, which is fine and natural; there are all kinds of behaviors that are cultural manifestations of underlying biological principles. Anyone who says people evolved to create and wear clothes is obviously mistaken. But if someone says people evolved to be shrewd tool-builders and manipulators of their environment in order to enhance their survival and comfort, and that the tendency to create and wear clothes stems out of those underlying evolved traits, well, he'd be right on the money.

Same with the topics discussed herein.

Chase