Study Shows An Evolutionary Response Towards Protecting Infants
July 13, 2009
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This kind of uneducated reporting (and dare I say ditto on the scientist’s statements about evolution?) does not do any good for the public understanding of evolution. First off, people often equate evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology (and they aren’t the same things). The latter often isn’t rigorous enough, and that gives the former a bad name. And, of course, reporting like this leaves the reader with the impression that the scientist here knows something about our evolutionary past from experiments with human subjects. No, he has learned something about the human psyche. It’s a psychological experiment and nothing more.