Saturday, March 23, 2013

How does Evolutionary Psychology prove its theories?

Most naysayers of EP say that where is your proof to your theories.  Proving something that has evolved in at least 100,000 years is difficult, but not impossible. For example, EP postulates that women tend to favorite men with high degrees of resources. How do you proof this assertion? David Buss used a cross-cultural study of 37 cultures around the world to find that if this was a cultural phenomenon, or an evolved mechanism in women. In all 37 cultures, women favored either men with resources or high resource potential. I think with a high degree of certainty we can say this is an evolved mechanism.


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