I started this blog following a course on evolutionary psychology I took and my interest in pursuing a career in this field.  However, I have been disappointed with the lack of primate understanding by the psychological community.  How on earth can we postulate theoretical explanations in our relatives based on little understanding of their behavioural ecology?  How can we confidently say that experimental evidence supports theoretical paradigms lacking ecological validity?  I found it very hard to side with a lot of the evolutionary psychological ideology and hope that in future they will pay more attention to investigating issues from a grass roots perspective.  I agree that comparative analysis is indeed an valuable method of understanding analogous or homologous perspectives of behaviour, but this does not mean we can do so in a vacuum.  Are we trying to make psychology too scientific?  Are we missing the point as a result?  What can anthropology, primatology and archeology tell us about functiona adaptations the lab can't?  Is this another case of an egocentric ideology that cognitive traits are uniquely human?  These are all questions that I ask myself throughout the course.  As a result I have decided to do my bit and am going on a course on Behavioural Ecology in Costa Rica.  I hope to see in the future more anthropological field studies as a part of evolutionary psychology courses.  I hope this blog will generate some interesting ideas and will stimulate lateral thinking.  We don't all have to agree but constructive debate towards better scientific evaluative methods, may reveal small truths whatever these maybe.  In the process we may even help to conserve the relatively small population of our relatives while we are at it!