This is particularly unfortunate for evolutionary psychologists, who are trying to find universal features of our species.

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These days, what evolutionary psychologists have mainly noted about the sexes is that they look for different things in a mate.

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You can guess that evolutionary psychologists have a reason for this too.

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Evolutionary psychologists point to other studies that they claim have practical significance.

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Some evolutionary psychologists believe that the latter is rooted in the universal fear of animals and an associated attempt to appease the beasts through emulation.

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Evolutionary psychologists are not as imperialist in their ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the nineteen-seventies, but they tend to be no less hubristic in their claims.

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The evolutionary psychologists have spent decades administering questionnaires to college students in an effort to confirm their ideas about what sort of partner was desirable in bed before there were beds.

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The Wason test suggests that analysing social contracts and analysing risk are what evolutionary psychologists call cognitive modules bundles of mental adaptations that act like bodily organs in that they are specialised to a particular job.

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Evolutionary psychologists at The State University of New York at Albany recently reported that 59% of men and 66% of women say that they have ended a budding relationship because of a bad kiss.

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To fight our way through this may well require ideas from much wider sources -- perhaps from systems architects and evolutionary psychologists, or from researchers dreaming up new energy sources or philosophers or activists questioning our basic priorities.

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Evolutionary psychologists say, dream on.

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Yet, a growing group of scientists, including neuroscientists, primatologists, evolutionary anthropologists, and developmental psychologists, are revealing that the premise of these books, courses, and schools is just plain wrong.

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