Editing Evolutionary psychology (section)

===Response by evolutionary psychologists===
Evolutionary psychologists have addressed many of their critics (e.g. in books by Segerstråle (2000),<ref>Segerstråle, Ullica Christina Olofsdotter (2000). Defenders of the truth: The battle for science in the sociobiology debate and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-850505-1}}.</ref> Barkow (2005),<ref>Jerome H. Barkow, (2005), Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists, Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>Barkow, Jerome (Ed.). (2006) Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-513002-7}}</ref> and Alcock (2001)<ref name=Alcock-John-2001>Alcock, John (2001). The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-516335-3}}</ref>). Among their rebuttals are that some criticisms are [[Straw man|straw men]], or are based on an incorrect nature versus nurture dichotomy or on basic misunderstandings of the discipline.<ref name=AmPs2010/><ref>Segerstråle, Ullica Christina Olofsdotter (2000). Defenders of the truth : the battle for science in the sociobiology debate and beyond. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-850505-1}}.</ref><ref>Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. & Barrett, H. C. (2005). Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions. In Carruthers, P., Laurence, S. & Stich, S. (Eds.), The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. NY: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>Controversies surrounding evolutionary psychology by Edward H. Hagen, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Berlin. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 5–67). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.</ref><ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/200906/the-never-ending-misconceptions-about-evolutionary-psychology The Never-Ending Misconceptions About Evolutionary Psychology: Persistent Falsehoods About Evolutionary Psychology] by Gad Saad, Psychology Today blog.</ref><ref>Geher, G. (2006). Evolutionary psychology is not evil! … and here's why … Psihologijske Teme (Psychological Topics); Special Issue on Evolutionary Psychology, 15, 181–202. {{cite web |url=http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~geherg/ep_not_evil.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-05-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509140205/http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~geherg/ep_not_evil.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cui-bono/201110/what-anti-evolutionary-psychologists-are-really-worried-about What Anti-Evolutionary Psychologists are Really Worried About] by John Johnson, Psychology Today blog.</ref> 

[[Robert Kurzban]] suggested that "...critics of the field, when they err, are not slightly missing the mark. Their confusion is deep and profound. It's not like they are marksmen who can't quite hit the center of the target; they're holding the gun backwards."<ref>Kurzban, R. (2013). [http://web.sas.upenn.edu/kurzbanepblog/2013/07/11/this-one-goes-to-eleven-pz-myers-and-other-punch-lines/ This One Goes to Eleven, PZ Myers, and Other Punch Lines.] Evolutionary Psychology.</ref> Many have written specifically to correct basic misconceptions.<ref name="Cosmides" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2015-04-13 |title="Yes, but…" Answers to Ten Common Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology - This View Of Life |url=https://thisviewoflife.com/on-common-criticisms-of-evolutionary-psychology/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Pinker" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-20 |title=Seven Key Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology |url=https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/20/seven-key-misconceptions-about-evolutionary-psychology/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Areo |language=en-US}}</ref>