“…We are, of course, not the first to document the relationship between evolutionary ideas and conservative ideologies (Jackson and Rees, 2007;McKinnon, 2006;Meloni, 2016). Despite their overt criticism of religiosity and a secular reading of Darwinism (Shapin, 2010), Dorothy Nelkin (2010 acutely observed that evolutionary psychologists exhibited a religious impulse, regularly embracing the role of "missionaries bringing truth to the unenlightened", not least when "they claim their theories are guides to moral action and policy agendas". In this article, we add to this literature by asking how evolutionary ideas are leveraged to promote certain views of the social world (be they scientific, political, moral, ethical, etc.…”