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caeli · 3487 days ago · link · · parent · post: Romantic or disgusting? Passionate kissing is not a human universal.
The big problem with evolutionary psychology is that it's basically made up of "just-so" stories. That is, most of evolutionary psychology's theories look plausible on the surface, but we have absolutely no evidence for them. Coming up with a plausible explanation for a phenomenon is like step 1 or science - you need to do extensive experimental research after that, but it's pretty hard to do experimental evolutionary psychology for obvious reasons. So all of these plausible sounding stories could be right or wrong but we have no real way to know. Here's a good blog post on the issue. There's a series of papers arguing for and against evo psych that I think appeared in Salon as well, I'll see if I can find them.