![]() Instead, the presence of complexity in human behavior, cognition, and language is assumed to be the result of evolution by natural selection, usually with reference to selection factors that operated in the Pleistocene. ![]() Further, evolutionary psychology is criticized for being excessively adaptationist, ignoring “spandrels,” developmental alternatives, and other, non-selectionist, mechanisms. Thus, “if men preferred older women, that could be ‘explained’ by pointing out that older women are ‘proven’ as mothers” (p. ![]() ![]() What’s wrong with evolutionary psychology’s explanation of men’s and women’s preferences? The short answer, according to Richardson, is that the kinds of evidence needed to test the claim are absent and that alternative explanations are not given sufficient weight. ![]()
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