SSH is Not Evolutionary Psychology

Whatever it may be, it isn't that

People frequently make wholly ignorant statements about the SSH, and one of the more common ones is that it is somehow related to evolutionary psychology, or that the various hierarchical ranks somehow evolved as part of Man’s development from hunter-gatherers.

This is understandable, given the theoretical relationship between the two:

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regard to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve. In this framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits.

But the taxonomy of the SSH has absolutely nothing to do with evolutionary psychology, because unlike the SSH, the basis for evolution, adaptation based on natural selection, is entirely false. Not only do I not believe in it, I conclusively and irrefutably proved it never happened in my book released yesterday, Probability Zero, which features a foreword by legendary physicist Frank J. Tipler.

Probability Zero represents the most rigorous mathematical challenge to Neo-Darwinian theory ever published. Period.

—Frank J. Tipler, Professor of Mathematics, Tulane University

I understand the assertion I have mathematically proven the impossibility of the core of the Modern Synthesis to be an enormous claim that flies in the face of more than 150 years of scientific consensus. But against all that weight of collected human knowledge and endeavor, I stand on one basic thing: the math. And, ironically enough, I do so with a confidence level of 5.3 Sigmas, which exceeds that of the astrophysicists when they announced the existence of the Higgs Boson.

Probability Zero: The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution by Natural Selection is already a bestseller in Biology and Genetic Science on Amazon. I encourage you to read it because it will show you, indeed, it will prove, how nonsensical and totally unfounded most of the “science” that the SSH most certainly is not happens to be.

If you think my confidence is misplaced, if you think I can’t possibly be correct and that all those biologists over the years can’t possibly be wrong, allow me to quote from Richard Dawkins’s most recent book, published in 2024, five years after I first demonstrated that natural selection was mathematically impossible on my blog.

JBS Haldane made a relevant hypothetical calculation. He assumed a selection pressure in favour of a new mutation so weak as to seem trivial: for every 1,000 individuals with the mutation who survive, 999 individuals without the mutation will survive. That selection pressure is much too weak to be detected by scientists working in the field. Given Haldane’s assumption, how long will it take for such a new mutation to spread through half the population? His answer was a mere 11,739 generations if the gene is dominant, 321,444 generations if it is recessive. In the case of many animals, that number of generations is an eye-blink by geological standards.

—Richard Dawkins, The Genetic Book of the Dead (2024)

Dawkins believes that a mere 11,739 generations, or even 321,444 generations, is more than enough time for evolution to take place. And note that those aren’t even the number of generations required for fixation across the whole species, that’s only halfway there, which means the number of generations required to fix that one single mutated base pair ranges from 23,478 to 642,888.

Remember, Dawkins actually thinks he’s making a case for evolution by natural selection here. Instead, it shows that he’s not paying any attention whatsoever to the relevant temporal constraints. Neither, apparently, is anyone else who has worked in the field of biology since 1957. Because another thing Probability Zero does is uphold Haldane’s substitution limit that everyone has ignored for the last 69 years, and resolve Haldane’s Dilemma once and for all.

What Dawkins failed to take into account is that in the 6.5 million years that represents the current scientific consensus for the separation of Man and chimpanzee from their last common ancestor, there is just enough time for 146,250 actual human generations, permitting, at most, 6 dominant mutations and 0 recessive mutations to fixate.

There are between 20 and 30 million fixations that require accounting for in the human lineage alone.

If, like me, you do the math, you’ll immediately see that evolution by natural selection is mathematically impossible. It’s not even close to possible.

For the benefit of the readers here, I should point out that I decided to finish Probability Zero and release it before Sigma Game because I realized it will have a very beneficial effect on the ability, and indeed, the necessity, for people to take the latter more seriously than might otherwise be their initial inclination.