RR 2008/07The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

The term “evolutionary psychology” worries me. It somehow implies that there are lots of non‐evolutionary psychologists out there teaching creationist psychology, alongside their flat‐earther geographical colleagues. I am surprised that the Geoplanarian Society (if there is one) has not offered to sponsor a new City Academy school. If they did, I am sure that they would want a non‐Darwinian psychologist or two on the staff.

In practice, of course, the term makes perfectly good sense. Psychology is divided into sub‐disciplines, some of which barely overlap. In particular, at a very early stage in its development, the study of behaviour was...