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Odin2005

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9. My big issue with Evo-Psych is unfalsifiable "just-so" stories.
Sun May 20, 2012, 04:56 PM
May 2012

80 years ago the great American vertebrate paleontologist Alfred Romer hypothesized that amphibians evolved from lobe-fined fish that lived in lakes and rivers in drought-prone areas, and this was taken as fact for decades even though there was no evidence for it. Decades later, with the discovery of Acanthostega, it was found that the first amphibians lived in wet climates and spent most of their time in the water, like some living salamanders.

A lot of Evolutionary Psychology's hypotheses are like that. Many are based on the hunches, assumptions, and conventional wisdom of scientists with little empirical evidence.

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