Evolutionary psychologists have been charged with using ______. An example would be taking a current behavior or ability, such as intelligence, and then speculating why it was adaptive thousands of years ago. Then that speculation, or inference, is treated as though it was actually the cause of what it was inferred from.
a. just-so stories
b. circular arguments
c. scientific fictions
d. fictional realism
Answer: b. circular arguments
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