Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10705459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Michael Kaplan (0000-0001-8003-7855, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | S3 |
| Pages | S294-S304 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/341853 |
| OpenAlex | W2033902763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
Phylogenetic information is often necessary to distinguish between evolutionary scenarios. Recently, some prominent proponents of evolutionary psychology have acknowledged this, and have claimed that such evidence has in fact been brought to bear on adaptive hypotheses involving complex human psychological traits. Were this possible, it would be a valuable source of evidence regarding hypothesized adaptive traits in humans. However, the structure of the Hominidae family makes this difficult or impossible. For many traits of interest, the closest extant relatives to the human species are too phenotypically different from humans for such methods to provide meaningful data. While phylogenetic information can be useful for testing adaptive hypotheses in humans, these generally involve traits that are (a) not widely shared in the species or (b) fairly widely shared in the Hominidae family, and hence likely of a lower order of complexity than the sorts of traits evolutionary psychology has so far been interested in
Adaptation (eye) · Biological evolution · Biology · Coevolution · Cognitive psychology · Evolutionary biology · Extant taxon · Gene · Hominidae · Human evolution · Phylogenetic comparative methods · Phylogenetic tree · Phylogenetics · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Genetics · Neuroscience · Philosophy and History of Science · Plant and animal studies · Psychology
On the Relationship between Science and Ethics
The matching problem for evolutionary psychiatry
On the Concept of Biological Race and Its Applicability to Humans
Moving Forward (and Beyond) the Modularity Debate
An Evidence-Based Study of the Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Explicating Evolutionary Epistemological Concerns on Gossip and Cyberbullying
Sex and Death
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
Toward a Phylogenetic Classification of Primates Based on DNA Evidence Complemented by Fossil Evidence
The Psychological Foundations of Culture
How reliable are human phylogenetic hypotheses?
Mitochondrial sequences show diverse evolutionary histories of African hominoids
Evolutionary Psychology
The innate versus the manifest
Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange
Sickle cell gene in Central India
On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual
The Historical Turn in the Study of Adaptation
How the mind works
Human Races
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |