{"id":70726,"date":"2012-05-29T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16873"},"modified":"2012-05-29T19:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:51:33","slug":"h-allen-orr-most-influential-evolutionary-biologist-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/29\/h-allen-orr-most-influential-evolutionary-biologist-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"H. Allen Orr, most influential evolutionary biologist of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader reminded me of an amusing paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epjournal.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/are-creationists-more-receptive-to-evolutionary-psychology-2\/\">Who Likes Evolution? Dissociation Of Human Evolution Versus Evolutionary Psychology<\/a>. The gist of the results are below (I added some clarification):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/05\/evo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16874\" title=\"evo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/05\/evo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe propositions to gauge acceptance of evolutionary psychology revolve around sex differences. One can argue whether this is an appropriate measure, but to a first approximation I think it gets to the heart of the matter. There are deep evolutionary genetic (number and size of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamete\">gametes<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_dimorphism#Humans\">anatomical reasons<\/a> to assume that sex differences in behavior are <b><i>not<\/i><\/b> exclusively a function of cultural variation. One can argue about the details of the inferences that evolutionary psychology makes (I think it is subject to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10634\">problems rife in psychology as a whole<\/a>), but I don&#8217;t think its ultimate underpinning in sociobiology is crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I do think there are some empirical results which are robust enough across a range of studies and observations that we move from theoretical likelihood to concrete assessment of the probability of a particular sex difference. For example, <b>the idea that males <i>on average<\/i> all things equal tend to exhibit more aggression than females.<\/b> To &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader reminded me of an amusing paper, Who Likes Evolution? Dissociation Of Human Evolution Versus Evolutionary Psychology. The gist of the results are below (I added some clarification):<\/p>\n<p>The propositions to gauge acceptance of evolutionary psycho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70726"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71292,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70726\/revisions\/71292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}