caa a22 4500 605448140 CHVBK 20210128100135.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-014-9466-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-014-9466-7 Driscoll Catherine Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8103, 27695-8103, Raleigh, NC, USA aut Neither Adaptive Thinking nor Reverse Engineering: methods in the evolutionary social sciences [Elektronische Daten] [Catherine Driscoll] In this paper I argue the best examples of the methods in the evolutionary social sciences don't actually resemble either of the two methods called "Adaptive Thinking” or "Reverse Engineering” described by evolutionary psychologists. Both AT and RE have significant problems. Instead, the best adaptationist work in the ESSs seems to be based on and is aiming at a different method that avoids the problems of AT and RE: it is a behavioral level method that starts with information about both the trait in question and knowledge of the EEA. I describe some examples from the literature, and suggest how a behavioral level ESS might still contribute to the discovery and understanding of human psychology. Finally, I describe some remaining problems for adaptationist reasoning of this kind. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Evolutionary psychology nationallicence Human behavioral ecology nationallicence Adaptive Thinking nationallicence Reverse Engineering nationallicence Optimality models nationallicence Adaptationism nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/1(2015-01-01), 59-75 0169-3867 30:1<59 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9466-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9466-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Driscoll Catherine Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8103, 27695-8103, Raleigh, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/1(2015-01-01), 59-75 0169-3867 30:1<59 2015 30 10539