ABSTRACT
Debates about human nature inform every philosophical tradition from their inception. Ironically, most evolutionarily based criticisms of human nature are directed at work whose avowed goal is to biologicize human nature and even to place human nature within an evolutionary frame. This chapter focuses on accounts of human nature that begin with and come after EO. It then concenterates on criticisms of human nature that arose first as responses to sociobiology. The chapter outlines some well-known accounts of human nature. It provides some key evolutionarily based arguments against such accounts of human nature. The chapter summarizes the evolutionary case against biological accounts of human nature and endorsing it. Grant Ramsey's (2013) account of human nature is set up in contrast with Machery's nomological account of human nature. Buller provides a quick and dirty way of distinguishing between essentialist and lineage style species concepts. Wilson challenged sociobiology to 'learn whether the evolution of human nature conforms to conventional evolutionary theory'.
