Hot on the heels of their "lusty ladies" theory of Human evolution the evolutionary psychologists trot out their latest show pony; the idea that tears aren't a sign of tenderness or vulnerability or a manifestation of enrapturement by the Holy Spirit but that they are defensive weapons, crucial to survival back in the stone age as our ancestors were being stalked by wolves. This is comedy hour, right? Defensive weapons are things like a bombardier beetle's boiling acid spray, not the salty taste of cold inner sorrow.
The problem is that these evolutionary psychology people are just looking for any excuse for research dollars.
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