Evolutionary explanations of behavior should look forward, not backward to prehistory

Evidence

Social cognitive theory highlights the forward-looking impact of our biological endowment, rather than post hoc speculations about how prehistoric humans adapted to primitive conditions that remain unknown. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 191

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is ‘forward-looking’ adaptationism a serious methodological position or a rhetorical move against evolutionary psychology? Worth chasing what Bandura actually claims here.
• XREF: connects to: Evolutionary psychologists see the human mind as many domain-specific evolved instincts, not fewer — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 72