• Zagorath
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    443 months ago

    What you’re essentially describing here is evolutionary psychology. Now, I won’t go as far as some have to say that it’s an entirely bunk field of study, primarily because I’m nowhere near qualified to make those claims. But I will say that it’s a field that has received a lot of criticism for being full of poor science and “just-so” stories without a basis in good science, and that even if some aspects of the field are valid, it has frequently been misapplied in popscience to promote incel/alt-right worldviews.

    • acargitz
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      183 months ago

      The thing that makes me chuckle is how these evolutionary psychology little stories always forget the most basic thing: humans are social animals that live in clans.

    • @[email protected]
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      173 months ago

      The bunk part is the overconfidence in the conclusion, not necessarily the ponderance.

      Because people are more than someone else’s summation and over-simplification of their evolutionary history.

      If they weren’t, then social evolution wouldn’t exist. Hence, the alt-right adoption.

      That’s the bunk, that, and they were being a total dildo.