Feb 24, 2022
There’s nothing wrong with evolutionary psychology per se. Indeed there’s no other way to understand how the mind works than through the lens of evolution.
Social Darwinism, on the other hand, is a problem, and it’s one of the evils that comes from combining evolutionary psychology with the Naturalistic Fallacy, something Peterson does all the time. I wrote a two part series critiquing Peterson, the first article of which focuses specifically on this issue.