KnowraAdaptationismLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Adaptationism, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 2Compared with 8Evolutionary psychologyCompared with: Its assumptions matter when evaluating whether a psychological trait is an adaptation or a byproduct.AdaptationCompared with: It can overstate how many traits are adaptations and how precisely selection shaped them.Stephen Jay GouldCompared with: Gould criticized explanations that treated every trait as an optimal adaptation.OrthogenesisCompared with: Its emphasis on selection contrasts with orthogenesis, though both can overstate a single cause of evolutionary patterns.Tinbergen's four questionsCompared with: A function hypothesis is only one of four questions, not a complete explanation by itself.Cognitive science of religionCompared with: It contrasts with accounts that treat religious tendencies as side effects of other cognitive capacities.D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonCompared with: His account challenges explanations that treat adaptive value as sufficient to explain form.Evolutionary origin of religionCompared with: It frames the dispute over whether religion was selected for, rather than incidental to other adaptations.