i'm not a tone troll, nor do i play one on tv, but that last comment of yours must have gone down much more smoothly for the calmniks.

you fail. Sean R takes a strong position, but it is not the polar opposite in every particular of whatever yours is.

thank you for the dose of relativism.

it's a bit chicken-or-the-egg-ish from where i'm standing - what is more objectionable (as if we could ever just pick one, but bear with me!), the definitive wording, or the wider lack of skepticism that accepts the definitive wording at face value?

'if no one can disprove, then it is not science.' ;) fixed that for ya

then you should check out comparative psychology as well. ;)

yay, someone else isn't getting their reinforcement from knee-jerkers and axe-grinders... i've been meaning to look up that WEIRD paper since Haidt mentioned it early in 'the righteous mind'.

hear, hear.

i'm still angling to get "neanderthal genes" on an endangered list!

A++

speaking of eusocial, try Haidt's "the righteous mind". he includes a sketch (nonvisual) of "90% chimp, 10% bee".

well put. the overarching "problem with evopsych" does appear to be that publicized practitioners (of a very young 'semisoft* science' division) have an overeagerness to make haphazard attributions.

Tim Leary had a pretty convincing handle on behavioral modeling - in his version most humans have up to four minds (search something like 'leary imprint circuits' and something should give you the gist - the rundown is something like I - simple survival, II - emotional/territorial, III - symbol/tool-using rational, IV…

agreed that many humans are too delicate and/or dull in their fallacious sensibilities (whether theistically moralizing or PUAthetic) to be trusted to interpret dry descriptions of 'evolutionary success' (let alone to interpret thirdhand interpretations of key phrases).

damn you for paying attention!

so that's your problem with an entire discipline?

lol boxing gloves

...i don't even want to know.

tWoW is adequate, but of course people are slobs.

well put! i always thought of 'old' (or usually 'grown-up') as about 30 years ahead of wherever I was. i'm past 40 now, and i think the number is getting bigger instead of smaller. it's possible i'm too big a fan of denying mortality, though.