Comments on: Pious Baboons

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:10:33 +0000

First: Not all organisms will generate a novel response when frustrated; some simply fail, and evolution will take its course by eliminating said organism from the gene pool.

Second: Either your frustration theory is wrong, or grad school rejection is not frustrating, because I have not seen you take a novel approach to applying to doctoral programs.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:39:55 +0000

Way before any of that. Besides I think I still had a girlfriend when the third round of rejections rolled in. Well at least it was on the penumbra of the end of our relationship.

I totally added to this comment just so I could use the word ‘penumbra’.

By: darwin

darwin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:35:22 +0000

So, when did you first come up with your theory that frustration motivates all of human activity? Was it during your third year of grad school rejections and no girlfriend? Or maybe the sixth year?

But yeah, it is something that gets left out of the evolutionary psych story.