Marlene Zuk in the New York Times attacks a core belief of Evolutionary Psychology:
Remember when life was simpler, and diets weren’t full of processed food and chemicals? No, not the 1950s. Increasingly, we are developing nostalgia for a much earlier epoch: the Pleistocene, when humans lived in small hunter-gatherer groups and didn’t worry about high cholesterol.
(…) In short, we have what the anthropologist Leslie Aiello called “paleofantasies.”
