The Language of Politics

I'd like to start my blog career by stating that I appreciate the potential of the type of studies evolutionary psychologists are undertaking.  A number of important, relevant and potentially useful points have been elucidated in the discourse's history, for example: in Cosmides and Tooby's article they mention that adaptation does not necessarilly imply a qualitative or qunatitative increase for the species involved.  This argument could be used to build a critique of racism (a hot topic tonight).  For instance, while racism was produced out of a response to a set of circumstances in which a part of 'coalition building' entailed the superficial classification of those that didn't resemble the agent as an 'other', one could argue that racism today represents a threat to the survival of the species (in regards to concepts of environmental racism, genocide, the threat of nucleur war, etc.).