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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Robert Wright
Publisher: Vintage

We do a lot of arguing about evolutionary psychology in the comments here on DDP. To get straight to the point: the really big problem with most evolutionary psychology is that to be 'science,' you have to be able to falsify it. The pilot experiment that we conducted indicated that, contrary to expectations, adding environmental enrichment (in the form of perforated, hollow balls filled with mealworms) to the enclosure did not modify the meerkats' daily activity cycles. Though these Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True. The role of the scientist is not to inform us whether a war (or war in general) is morally right or wrong. This is a classic book on evolutionary psychology that oddly enough uses Darwin's own life as the story line. Welcome to evolutionary psychology, a discipline curiously situated at the interface between evolutionary science and pop psychology, where both wild and reasonable claims seem to clash against the wall of an incredible scarcity of pertinent data. In the past I've Second, we will never get very far, either in our moral deliberations or our scientific inquiries, if we disregard genuine facts because we dislike their implications. The only way that we can correct the problem of war is if we can understand truth about why we fight. One way to decide on the overall value of a discipline is to look at its best works rather than its worst. It undoubtedly We will first explore the two oft-cited though admittedly intertwined motives for the necessity of militant atheism: one is based on the upholding of some objective truth(s), the other is based on the upholding of some moral value(s). In David Livingstone Smith's book, The Most Dangerous Animal, Smith approaches the problem of war from both angles. In Developmental Psychology at the University of Southern California, where he studied the evolutionary and developmental origins of the mind in humans and non-human animals. More effusive is the cover of the paperback edition, which adds Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology to The Moral Animal. And if you read the animal behavior journals, you'll see that this requirement sets the bar pretty high, so that many assertions about evolutionary psychology sink without a trace. This perspective seemingly allows New Atheists to vilify religion as an absolute evil, while simultaneously treating science and 'Truth' as being absolutely good.