The rise of the evolutionary psychology douchebag

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37. Evolutionary Psycology is some pretty interesting stuff.

I just started looking at it not too long ago so I'm undecided about the particulars, but generally speaking an examination of how biology affects human behavior sounds like a good idea to me.

While I don't think that any particular behavior is determined by biology, certainly our brain chemistry, which is a product of evolution, cannot be discounted in human development individually and collectively.

A good way to look at it might be that our own bodies could be considered a part of our environment and we manage the advantages they confer as well as the liabilities they they may present to our survival objectives. We are now able to replace parts in our bodies as if they were machines and use drugs to change our brain chemistry which literally changes our thoughts. Certainly people with mental health issues frequently feel as if the are at war with their own minds as surely as someone with a degenerative physical ailment fights to make his body do what he wants.

I don't think there is anything in evolutionary psychology that will replace the necessity of ethics in human behavior. It appears to be attempting to examine the development of various mental tools all humans of both genders have at their disposal to insure survival.