![]() ![]() The difference: EP has tended to favor stories where features of human anatomy and behavior serve a specific evolutionary function, and Gould favored stories where they didn’t. His story of how the woman got her orgasm is as speculative and storylike as anything you’ll find in evolutionary psychology. So Gould, as an evolutionist, was actually a thoroughgoing just-so storyteller himself. That is, they develop a plausible account of how some biological feature-from pair-bonding, to upright posture, to aggression-may have emerged through the evolutionary process, and then seek to test the account against information derived from a wide variety of sources. All evolutionists shape hypotheses in the form of historical narratives. ![]() ![]() Evolution is an intrinsically story-based discipline. ![]()
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