Critical Evolutionary Psychology

A critical examination of evolutionary psychology—questioning its assumptions about human nature, its methods for inferring ancestral environments, and its political implications. Critical Evolutionary Psychology asks: Are evolutionary stories just-so stories? Do they naturalize contemporary social arrangements by projecting them onto the past? How does evolutionary psychology handle cultural variation? Whose interests are served by claims that patriarchy, violence, or greed are "evolved"? Critical Evolutionary Psychology doesn't deny evolution; it insists that claims about our evolutionary past must be scrutinized for evidence, alternative explanations, and political context.

Critical Evolutionary Psychology "They claim women are naturally monogamous and men naturally promiscuous—therefore patriarchy is natural. Critical Evolutionary Psychology asks: what's the evidence? How much cultural variation is ignored? Could the same data support different stories? Evolution happened, but the stories we tell about it reflect our present, not just our past. Critical Evolutionary Psychology examines the politics behind the prehistory."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Marxist Evolutionary Psychology

A Marxist critique and reconstruction of evolutionary psychology—examining how claims about human nature reflect class interests, how evolutionary stories can naturalize capitalism, and how a materialist approach might understand human evolution differently. Marxist Evolutionary Psychology asks: Does evolutionary psychology's focus on competition reflect capitalist ideology? How might cooperation, sharing, and egalitarianism be as "evolved" as hierarchy? Could a Marxist evolutionary psychology examine how modes of production shape human evolution, and how human nature is both biologically based and historically variable? It doesn't deny evolution; it insists that evolutionary stories are never neutral.

"They say humans are naturally competitive—look at our ancestors. Marxist Evolutionary Psychology asks: which ancestors? For most of human history, we were foragers, and foragers share. The 'natural' competition story reflects capitalism, not prehistory. Evolution happened, but the stories we tell about it tell us more about the present than the past. Marxism insists on asking: whose interests do these stories serve?"

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Leftist Evolutionary Psychology

A leftist approach to evolutionary psychology—questioning conservative assumptions about human nature while taking evolution seriously. Leftist Evolutionary Psychology asks: What if cooperation, sharing, and egalitarianism are as evolved as competition? What if human nature includes immense plasticity, shaped by social environments? What if evolutionary stories that naturalize hierarchy are ideology, not science? Leftist Evolutionary Psychology doesn't deny evolution; it insists that evolutionary explanations must be scrutinized for their political content and that human nature is both real and variable.

"They say men are naturally aggressive, women naturally nurturing—therefore patriarchy is natural. Leftist Evolutionary Psychology asks: what's the evidence? How much cultural variation? Could the same data support different stories? Evolution happened, but the stories we tell about it reflect our politics. Leftist evolutionary psychology tells different stories—about cooperation, about plasticity, about possibility."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Yarvinian evolution

"Yarvinian evolution" is the system by which dumb people arrive at dumb ideas instead of smart ideas because they think the dumb idea "sounds more badass".

The name is a hybrid between "Darwinian evolution" and "Yarvin" as in Curtis Yarvin, the "Dark Enlightenment" blogger-turned-philosopher whose grade-school-level dumb ideas were taken seriously by the likes of Peter Thiel and J. D. Vance.

The advent of conservative, "red pilled" or "black pilled" memes is a textbook example of Yarvinian evolution.

by snknarf- February 15, 2025

human evolution

the state or being of mitchelli turning into Mr. Quinn

human evolution has evolved so much...

its like monkies grew lungs and vocal cords and showed up at our school..

by school_chromebook_user December 2, 2025

Jimbo's Evolution

Jimbo's Evolution is when you insert yourself inside of a crocodile while watching anime, this will open a black portal taking your house and family, starting a chaos chain of mayhem

Katie, did you hear about Ethan, he accidentally commenced Jimbo's Evolution

by XerØevi December 1, 2019

Brown's Sapient Evolutionary Theory

The theory that an intelligent pre-human race with entirely black sclera (eyes) evolved to the status of a civilization and technological mastery greater than that of the present human race on the planet earth, the population of which is entirely genetically manipulated and produced by cloning. These aliens/extra-terrestrials may inhabit any number of planets, including in our own solar system, and possess ultimate power over the earth according to the theory. Intelligent apes from before human history according to Brown's Sapient Evolutionary Theory cloned humanity and dominated them as slaves, and presently treat them lower than cats, dogs, and monkeys, treating all human beings as political chess pieces and science experiments.

Brown's Sapient Evolutionary Theory is depressing, but probably true.

by CoaltownBrown January 2, 2023