title: The sketch is blank: No evidence for an explanatory role for cultural group selection.
abstract: As evidence that cultural group selection has occurred, Richerson et al. simply retrodict that humans use language, punish each other, and have religion. This is a meager empirical haul after 30 years. This contrasts sharply with the adaptationist approach to human behavior - evolutionary psychology - which has produced scores of novel, specific, and empirically confirmed predictions.
authors: Department of Psychology,Harvard University,Cambridge,MA 02138.krasnow@fas.harvard.eduhttp://projects.iq.harvard.edu/epl/people/max-krasnow.
authors: Max M
authors: MM
authors: Krasnow
authors: Department of Political Science,College of Business,Stony Brook University,Stony Brook,NY 11794-4392.andrew.delton@stonybrook.eduhttp://andrewdelton.com.
authors: Andrew W
authors: AW
authors: Delton
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012067:Religion