Can EP be a means to an egalitarian end?

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.). 
While I'm not adversed to critiquing the sciences, as will become obvious by my next entry, I would first like to stress their significance.  If anyone else has any examples of how to apply the concepts discussed in class to meet these progressive ends lets hear them.

Nate
Submitted by Nate Midgley on Wed, 04/11/2007 - 10:20pm. Nate Midgley's blog | login or register to post comments | printer friendly version