"How we go from our genetic endowment to a fully developed human brain is a complicated story of feedback loops piggybacking on environmental contingencies, not a story of a developmental process unfolding in accordance with a 'genetic program.'"
- David Buller and Valerie Harcastle, "Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology: Against Promiscuous Modularity" Brain and Mind 1: 313-314.
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I agree; on the other hand, just because it is complicated, and just because there is environmental feedback, that does not mean there are no regularities or human universals. Aren't they flogging a dead horse?
well. the quotation is from 2000, so I guess that is ancient history at this point. but their main problem was with the whole massive modularity idea and that most of the little modules worked out by ev. psych are not biological adaptations, but the result of brain plasticity... which is the "real" adaptation.
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