![]() ![]() Adaptationism–how to carry out an exaptationist program. But such an exploratory role would barely distinguish just-so stories from the more commonly used term of ‘hypotheses.’ Why extend and displace established terminology, leading to nothing but conceptual confusion?Īndrews, P. Buss (1995: 12) likewise notes that just-so stories are an ‘essential process of science’ that can serve as a baseline to pit different functional theories against each other in critical empirical tests. Goodenough (1976: 34) suggested that researchers may need to ‘invent “just-so” stories and then accumulate circumstantial evidence that will make them more or less plausible as time goes on.’ The evolutionary psychologist David M. Even before Gould (1978) attacked adaptationist accounts with the epithet of ‘just-so stories’, the anthropologist Ward H. A more benevolent reading may argue that just-so stories have their epistemic role in evolutionary inquiry (Hubálek, 2021). ![]() What, then, is the role of just-so stories in scientific research? The discussion above denies any explanatory power to just-so stories. ![]()
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