evolution… Hard-wired 13: Creationism? Bring it on! 29 Jan 201927 Jan 2019 I was recently challenged to a debate by a creationist who confidently informed me that evolution is a lie, even going so far as to ask me if I knew…
evolution… Hard-wired 12: Know thy enemy 27 Jan 201926 Jan 2019 Nobody seriously can deny that our evolutionary journey, from the simplest chemical compounds to the complex organisms we know as Homo sapiens involved extreme callousness and even casual cruelty. Survival…
evolutionary psychology… Hard-wired 11: Heuristics – our evolved psychological shortcuts 26 Jan 2019 Heuristics are the psychological shortcuts that keep us going in a complex world. They shorten decision-making time and allow us to function without constantly having to stop and think about…
evolution… Selection pressures 2 8 Jan 201929 Dec 2018 Our series on evolutionary psychology continues with the basic 'nuts and bolts' of natural selection and its impact upon speciation, survival and behaviour (flight, hiding, sexual attraction etc). This necessarily…
evolution… Selection pressures part 1 2 Jan 201929 Dec 2018 What do we mean by 'selection pressure'? Doesn't evolution just happen anyway? https://youtu.be/0ewXtxJsV-g
evolution… Hard wired 7: The evolutionary environment 26 Oct 201826 Oct 2018 What do we mean by EEA? The acronym 'EEA' stands for the 'Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation/Adaptiveness', otherwise known as the 'Evolutionary Environment' or the 'Ancestral Environment'. Originally coined by John…
evolution… Hard-wired 6: Why is anything hard-wired at all? 1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018 Back into the routine with the mental health YouTube channel. Here's the latest instalment of the evolutionary psychology series https://youtu.be/r3HML3nBUz0 Let’s be clear about just what ‘hard wired’ means. After…
evolution… Evolutionary psychology: The naturalistic and agency fallacies 6 Aug 20185 Aug 2018 Just because the theory of evolution by natural selection explains how we got to be the way we are, there's no reason to imagine it can tell us how we…
evolution… Evolutionary psychology video playlist 4 Aug 20181 Oct 2018 Here you will find my developing video playlist on evolutionary psychology. It's a long term project. Enjoy.
