[astazangasta]

The world is littered with evolutionary just-so stories, that like a good horoscope bring all the right details together and sound just right, but are total hooey with no evidence. The fact is we know little about how we evolved and determinations like this are nearly impossible, no matter how fun they sound. See also the Aquatic Ape theory, etc.

[dceddia]

This seems to be a trend lately (or maybe one I was unaware of before) - finding some sort of evolutionary reasoning to justify this or that. It's very pronounced in self-help literature, books about psychology, etc. But it seems to be spreading to all sorts of fields.

Clearly they're pretty hard to verify in a lot of cases, and I'm starting to wonder how many of these evolutionary "we are this way because our ancestors did X and were hunted by Y" theories are mostly fluff.

[stuxnet79]

This is exactly it. A lot of these speculations are not scientifically tractable.