Biological explanations of human culture also brought criticism to evolutionary psychology: Evolutionary psychologists see the human psyche and physiology as a genetic product and assume that genes contain the information for the development and control of the organism and that this information is transmitted from one generation to the next via genes.Evolutionary Psychology: A Case Study in the Poverty of Genetic Determinism. In Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel and David L. Hull, Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken (NJ) 2002, ISBN 0-471-49850-5, pp. 233-254. Evolutionary psychologists thereby see physical and psychological characteristics of humans as genetically programmed. Even then, when evolutionary psychologists acknowledge the influence of the environment on human development, they understand the environment only as an activator or trigger for the programmed developmental instructions encoded in genes.David J. Buller: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology And The Persistent Quest For Human Nature. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 2005, ISBN 978-0-262-02579-9, pp. 134-135. Evolutionary psychologists, for example, believe that the human brain is made up of innate modules, each of which is specialised only for very specific tasks, e. g. an anxiety module. According to evolutionary psychologists, these modules are given before the organism actually develops and are then activated by some environmental event. Critics object that this view is reductionist and that cognitive specialisation only comes about through the interaction of humans with their real environment, rather than the environment of distant ancestors. Interdisciplinary approaches are increasingly striving to mediate between these opposing points of view and to highlight that biological and cultural causes need not be antithetical in explaining human behaviour and even complex cultural achievements.Nils Seethaler: Discrepant Explanatory Approaches in Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology to the Phenomenon of Visual Art. In: Benjamin P. Lange, Sascha Schwarz: The Human Psyche between Nature and Culture. Berlin 2015, pp. 74-82.
biological explanations of human culture also brought criticism to evolutionary psychology evolutionary psychologists see the human psyche and physiology as a genetic product and assume that genes contain the information for the development and control of the organism and that this information is transmitted from one generation to the next via genesevolutionary psychology a case study in the poverty of genetic determinism in marc h v van regenmortel and david l hull promises and limits of reductionism in the biomedical sciences john wiley & sons hoboken (nj) 2002 isbn 0-471-49850-5 pp 233-254 evolutionary psychologists thereby see physical and psychological characteristics of humans as genetically programmed even then when evolutionary psychologists acknowledge the influence of the environment on human development they understand the environment only as an activator or trigger for the programmed developmental instructions encoded in genesdavid j buller adapting minds evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature mit press cambridge ma 2005 isbn 978-0-262-02579-9 pp 134-135 evolutionary psychologists for example believe that the human brain is made up of innate modules each of which is specialised only for very specific tasks e g an anxiety module according to evolutionary psychologists these modules are given before the organism actually develops and are then activated by some environmental event critics object that this view is reductionist and that cognitive specialisation only comes about through the interaction of humans with their real environment rather than the environment of distant ancestors interdisciplinary approaches are increasingly striving to mediate between these opposing points of view and to highlight that biological and cultural causes need not be antithetical in explaining human behaviour and even complex cultural achievementsnils seethaler discrepant explanatory approaches in anthropology and evolutionary psychology to the phenomenon of visual art in benjamin p lange sascha schwarz the human psyche between nature and culture berlin 2015 pp 74-82