Thanks for the ping. Glad to see this article. I have always been very skeptical as anything I've read from this field lacks any empirical basis, but seems to be based on musings about how this or that behavior might confer some kind of trumped up advantage.
Even before Darwin, the English believed a "criminal class" evolved (or had always existed), which they attempted to ship to America and Australia, where they promptly lost those characteristics when exposed to a relatively class-free society and became some of the most law abiding and productive people in the world. But, I suppose they have some evo-psych explanation for that too.
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