Comments on: About https://evolvify.com evolutionary theory and hunter-gatherer anthropology applied to the human animal Sat, 06 Jun 2015 21:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.2 By: Cody Ferris Blizzard https://evolvify.com/about#comment-13 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:21:23 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-13 Sounds like a website for people with brilliant minds & time to kill.

]]> By: Putri Sarinande https://evolvify.com/about#comment-12 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:37:31 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-12 hi buddy.. this is awesome, GREAT.. *wide-smile*
ya know, i've shared this – to two f*ckbook groups and to a friend of mine, who is living in North Sumatra.
yours, i hope, could give Another Point Of View, to all of us here, in Indonesia.
many thanks, for : following on my twitter, then *oh, i thank the internet convention, it's like "in google we trust, LOL*

bye for now, buddy *shake-hands*

anyway, i've commented using my own blog, but now – here, on your Guest-Page – i put a link of My Office. hope you don't mind with that 🙂

]]> By: Jim https://evolvify.com/about#comment-10 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:59:01 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-10 I've been looking for this site for a while. i guess i'm genetically pre-disposed to loving adventure. We should make it a goal to develop the rest of this community.
Cheers,
Jim

]]> By: brett https://evolvify.com/about#comment-9 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:14:56 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-9 In reply to Ross.

Read the book "The Adaptive mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture" by Leda Cosmides and John Tobby. This book is considered the foundational text for EP. It is a fairly dense read but it provides an incredible introduction to the field. highly recommended

]]> By: Peggy https://evolvify.com/about#comment-8 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:29:19 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-8 The paleo diet is liberating, primal exercise is a huge benefit, but the change in my psychology since I changed my lifestyle 6 years ago is downright amazing. Or so I thought, when things started to change. Now I see myself as a pretty normal human being – spotting fallacies in copy left and right, calm when others are freaking out, objective about my mate's infidelities, and on and on.

Reading your pages is like shootin' the shit with friends I don't have (paleo thinkers are few and far between you know). It's nice. Thanks.

I'm working on a book about how parents raised their kids 10,000 or more years ago. It's not about recipes and menus. It's not about fitness and childhood obesity. There's a plethora of resources out there for that stuff. It's about how parents and children connect on a psychological level. I'm really looking forward to sharing your insight on my own journey!

]]> By: Ross https://evolvify.com/about#comment-7 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:31:47 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-7 Hi Andrew,

I have been hunting for a site like this for a while and love what I have seen so far. I am relatively new to the EP scene, but have instantly recognised the massive potential it has to make the world a better place (and to be honest, make me and others a lot happier).

I have begun reading a text book on the subject (Evolutionary Psychology: David Buss) to ensure I have a strong foundational knowledge before I begin to apply it. It has so far ticked all the boxes I was hoping it would, but can you please recommend any more texts/articles/websites that you have found useful?

Many thanks,

Ross

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]]> By: Andrew https://evolvify.com/about#comment-4 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:07:00 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-4 In reply to Brian.

Yes and no.

Unfortunately for individuals, the selection and adaptation I refer to happens at the species level. The selection pressure works by increasing or decreasing reproductive success. And that is where the unfortunate part comes in – reproductive success is often decreased by less-than-fun things like death and disease.

To my mind, the point of applying evolutionary logic is to avoid subjecting ourselves to as many negative selection pressures as we can possibly avoid. In other words, to avoid adaptation.

It can be a bit of a word game because our bodies can certainly “adapt” to different things (training to increase strength and VO2 max, ketogenic diets to increase fat adapted mitochondria), but this is adaptation within a range of preexisting genetic limits, and totally different from adaptation in the Darwinian sense.

]]> By: Brian https://evolvify.com/about#comment-3 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:50:16 +0000 http://localhost/?page_id=2#comment-3 Love the site, and the questions you pose. Maybe you can clarify a few things for me. Being that we are ALWAYS adapting, and there is no off switch, what good is going 'Paleo'? Should we not be able to have some sort of adaptability, flexibility to our current lifestyles (assuming the results are warranted/wanted). I feel like the best way to approach any evolutionary/adaptation topic is results first, beliefs second.

"Evolution demands that, over evolutionary time, species adapt to variables in their respective environments."

Would love to hear your thoughts-

peace

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