This article examines Skinner’s often neglected ideas about evolution, which he returns to in his final academic paper. I attempt to square Skinner’s advocacy for evolutionary explanation, including his efforts to reconcile biological, individual, and cultural adaptation, with how he is framed and critiqued by a school of evolutionary psychologists who attribute to Skinner a blank slate, or so-called standard social science model, view of the mind. I argue that characterizing Skinner in this manner is inconsistent with his evolutionary writings and ignores Skinner’s explicit disavowals of such interpretations. I then discuss Skinner’s evolutionary views in light of contemporary evolutionary theories of human psychology. I also compare the reception to evolutionary psychology and Skinner within the field more generally and conclude by discussing the proposal that evolutionary psychology should be considered a new paradigm for psychology, a claim that seems to follow from evolutionary psychologists’ caricature of Skinner.

本文考察了斯金纳经常被忽视的关于进化的观点，他在他的最后一篇学术论文中再次提到了这一点。我试图将斯金纳对进化解释的主张，包括他努力调和生物、个体和文化适应的努力，与他被一群进化心理学家诬陷和批评的方式相一致，他们认为斯金纳是一张白纸，或所谓的标准社会科学模型，心灵观。我认为以这种方式描述斯金纳与他的进化论著作不一致，并且忽略了斯金纳对这种解释的明确否认。然后我根据当代人类心理学的进化理论讨论斯金纳的进化观点。