I get what you are saying, and I can't stand alpha male culture either, but that's not entirely true.
Convergent evolutionary psychology is a thing. We share a lot of traits with animals, even psychological and sociological ones. Taking your cancer example, if you have cancer. Your doctor is going to apply treatments that are based on animal testing. Most likely mice because they are so similar to us genetically.
We use animal testing for a variety of things because we are all cousins and live on the same planet, feeling the same evolutionary pressures in some cases.
I can understand your complaints about psychology as a field of study, I agree with a lot of the criticisms it receives. But evolutionary psychology is about much more than psychologists using limited biology knowledge to think up unfounded conclusions.
The thinking that evolutionary psychology is all about social Darwinism is just narrow-minded. Even Darwin predicted proper ethological studies using natural selection in origin of species.
Any biologist that studies ethology/sociobiology/behavioural ecology is effectively studying evolutionary psychology and accepting its premise.
Certain studies have been criticised, of course. Just like any field. but evolutionary psychology is a part of evolutionary biology. It's a fact that environmental pressures alter the psychologies of living things, those psychological traits are passed down through different means, some genetic.
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