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Human Nature Review 3 (2003) 24-35
Essay Review
An Alternative Paradigm After All?
By
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
A review of The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness and the New Science of the
Self by Peggy La Cerra & Roger Bingham. New York: Harmony Books (2002).
Setting The Stage In Three Steps: 1. Dipping harbour similar beliefs – and actually false be-
into the History and Sociology of a Very liefs – about human nature and the mind. The
Young Science initial attempt at lumping these together, Tooby
David Buss (1995a) claimed that Evolu- and Cosmides’(1992) concept of the Standard
tionary Psychology (EP) was a new and poten- Social Science Model (SSSM), was seen by
tially unifying paradigm. Buss’ influential pa- most as an exaggeration or an aggregate of
per was published mentaries by sev- strawpersons. Buss’(1995b) conclusion was
eral authors more or less connected to evolu- that EP might be the first unifying paradigm -
tionary approaches to psychology and other so- and I agree (Kennair, 2002b).
cial sciences. One of ments was by Then, according to the presentations in
Peggy La Cerra and Robert Kurzban – and The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness
made this claim: One cannot have a new para- and the New Science of the Self one may read
digm where there has not existed an old para- that the two authors, Peggy La Cerra and Roger
digm. The first author was a graduate student Bingham, having first been convinced of EP,
with Cosmides and Tooby – the two most inno- are now opposed to that theory. This is not that
vative theoretical forces within EP. At the time surprising. In 1998 they had a paper published
this seemed fair enough – the force and impact in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
of EP and behavioural ics was only start- Sc