Comments on: World Science Festival: “Laws of Life” Is the New “Tape of Life”

By: Amos Kenigsberg

Amos Kenigsberg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:05:20 +0000

Hi, borek. Not exactly sure what you mean here. There is a pretty big difference between attributing a factor to evolutionary psychology and attributing it to the specific history of a culture.

For instance, Harvard President Larry Summers argued (quite controversially) that part of the reason that there weren’t more women among the top rank of scientists was due to biology. Some people instead argued that the reason was entirely cultural because women are pushed away from science, encouraged to spend time with their families, etc.

By: borek123456

borek123456 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:02:27 +0000

…that many mental qualities attributed to evolutionary psychology were instead the product of arbitrary human cultural history…

This sentence really shocked me. What does that mean “instead”? The source of change in this respect is not important, evolutionary psychology means, that whatever signals came to humans, they got imprinted if repeated many times for a long time, and through this long time repetition some of our traits, i.e. chemicals in our bodies got changed.

IT IS EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

Do not use terms you do not fully understand. Many do that and it is the disaster of this world.