Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Feb 22, 2018; 11:07pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/the-pseudoscience-of-evolutionary-psychology-tp7591207p7591279.html
Well, than that is exactly where we part company. You're talking about the behavior of the testes (and the adrenals); I am talking about the behavior of the individual organism. Gets fuzzy when we talk about bees.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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That's not at all the distinction I'm making (never mind "precisely"). 8^) All 3 of us are talking about selecting for behavior. The difference is that I'm claiming "expressing and responding to testosterone" is a behavior.
On 02/22/2018 01:39 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> I feel mildly a failure to not be able to articulate (even recognize)
> what the fundamental abstraction is around the difference between
> selecting for behaviour vs something more material or more
> (presumably) quantifiable such as Testosterone levels. I am not sure
> if that is precisely the distinction Glen is making here, but the
> former seems "oh so more relevant" in spite of the latter being
> "possibly somewhat more measureable".
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