tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post3420209537037987432..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: Thoughts on the EEAPeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-3130891914605930542008-06-30T11:21:00.000-04:002008-06-30T11:21:00.000-04:00Speaking of a broader evolutionary perspective. Ar...Speaking of a broader evolutionary perspective.<BR/><BR/> Art Devaney remarked "A well-known evolutionary psychologist is far overweight; does he not understand the palaeolithic mind after all".<BR/><BR/>John Tooby is not comfortable with domain general mechanisms because they are easily measured - and compared. Evolutionary Psychology may well have been part of a new paradigm to move away from domain general mechanisms- just to get away from them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-47498648021593537672008-05-18T22:43:00.000-04:002008-05-18T22:43:00.000-04:00Nice article. I think we are now at a point in tim...Nice article. I think we are now at a point in time when the math has yet to fill in the idea of EEA. Perhaps the heavily mathematical treatment of biology at places like the Sante Fe Institute will find it useful. ("N-space" of selection pressures etcetera.) For the near term at least however it's easier to think and talk about specific (atomistic or nodal-points in N-space?) "adaptive problems" and their corresponding adaptive solutions.harpersnoteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10711246471408082849noreply@blogger.com