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I think you misread the parent comment, as well as mine. Consider this:
"Human brain is like a peacock tail: it's a product of the sexual selection. It's too huge of an organ."
That doesn't reference evolutionary psychology, but rather, that describes Fisherian Runaway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway
Fisher pre-dates evolutionary psychology/behavioralism by several decades. Fisher put his theory forward back in the 1930s.
I agree with you that most of the modern evpysch stuff is poorly thought out.
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I think you misread the parent comment, as well as mine. Consider this:
"Human brain is like a peacock tail: it's a product of the sexual selection. It's too huge of an organ."
That doesn't reference evolutionary psychology, but rather, that describes Fisherian Runaway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway
Fisher pre-dates evolutionary psychology/behavioralism by several decades. Fisher put his theory forward back in the 1930s.
I agree with you that most of the modern evpysch stuff is poorly thought out.