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| | Evolutionary Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Incest Taboo |
 | | Indeed, incest aversion can be displayed towards kith and kin who have not grown up in proximity with one another, and the onset of sexual apathy or aversion can be near instantaneous depending upon changes in information alone (Harris, 1989). |
 | | A behavioristic explanation of incest is hypothetical, yet testable, and it is the ability to be subject to experimental falsification that distinguishes it from evolutionary explanations that are untestable, and hence cannot meet the strictures of science. |
 | | Indeed, it may be persuasively argued that fitness issues have nothing whatsoever to do with incest, and that incest avoidance is, like a spandrel, a by-product of unremarkable learning processes that are traceable in human behavior and in the activity of the human brain. |
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