Mason, Kelby. Review of Robert C. Richardson's EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AS MALADAPTED PSYCHOLOGY. NDPR (June 2009).

Richardson, Robert C. Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. In recent years a range of philosophers have been making a similar charge against evolutionary psychology, that it's neither evolutionary nor psychology -- or, at least, that it isn't good evolutionary or psychological science. David Buller has most forcefully argued that evolutionary psychology is no good as psychology, and now Robert Richardson has provided the corresponding argument against its evolutionary bona fides (Buller 2005). Richardson's main contention is that once we hold evolutionary psychology to the same evidential standards applied elsewhere in evolutionary theory, we should reject its "pretensions" as "unconstrained speculation" (p38). On Richardson's account, doing evolutionary science is hard -- really hard -- and evolutionary psychology has simply failed to provide the kind of evidence that is required. . . . Read the whole review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16331.