I once wrote a critique of evolutionary psychology with respect to the evolution of flexible cognition in humans, but it’s very clear from the interview and my readings that evolutionary psychology is much broader than that.

I thought the concern of one listener that it was all about sex was, as you said, quite unfounded. There is a huge amount to evolutionary psychology and one area which you didn’t mention was how we think about social contracts. The relationship of ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours and watch out if you cross me’ is a logical relationship that humans are appalling at working with if expressed in abstract terms, but are excellent at if couched in terms of social contracts (hope that made sense). Cosmides and Tooby’s work is a great source for that.

Thanks again.