Clark and Winegard (This issue; hereafter CW) propose that the evolutionary incentives faced by our ancestors often led them to promote their own group’s welfare at the expense of finding and disseminating facts. In other words, humans evolved to prioritize tribalism over truth seeking. In our modern world, this proclivity represents an inherited glitch in our collective psyche, with major ramifications for political progress and scientific research. We find CW’s analysis compelling. In this commentary, we propose the addition of two further elements to their framework. First, we suggest sexual selection as an additional mechanism through which tribal tendencies evolved. Second, we suggest that the study of tribalism could be strengthened by drawing upon historical research. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of the risks inherent in CW’s proposed research agenda, in which social scientists ignore their preferences for how the world should be and pursue any and all hypotheses regardless of where they might lead.

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性选择、历史和部落主义的演变

Clark 和 Winegard（本期；以下简称 CW）提出，我们的祖先面临的进化激励常常导致他们以寻找和传播事实为代价来促进自己群体的福利。换句话说，人类进化到优先考虑部落主义而不是寻求真相。在我们的现代世界中，这种倾向代表了我们集体心理中的一种遗传性故障，对政治进步和科学研究产生了重大影响。我们发现 CW 的分析很有说服力。在本评论中，我们建议在其框架中添加另外两个元素。首先，我们建议将性选择作为部落倾向进化的附加机制。其次，我们建议可以通过借鉴历史研究来加强对部落主义的研究。最后，