What I'm wondering about evo psych is how much it is backed by scientific, empirical studies?
I'm wondering how much of evo psych is theory and how much is evidence. How much is it backed by science in biology and genetics? How much is it backed by studying human behaviour, rather than bahaviour in other primates or mammals that are closely related to us? Etc.
I've heard that up until very recently, our genes were thought to be set in stone. This was a hypothesis but was treated as dogma. Then along came the epigenetics theory and it seems that it has obliterated that former theory/dogma... or? Is evo psych perhaps a poorly investigated hypothesis, dressed as a proven model of behaviour?
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