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This phrase is a reference to [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s 1902 ''[[Just So Stories]]'', containing fictional and deliberately fanciful tales for children, in which the stories pretend to explain [[animal]] characteristics, such as the origin of the spots on the leopard.<ref name="Love2003">{{cite book|author=Glen A. Love|title=Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ5mbMlzS5cC&pg=PA71|year=2003 |publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-2245-4|page=71}}</ref><ref name="Kipling1902">{{Cite book |url=http://www.sff.net/people/karawynn/justso/leopard.htp |author=Rudyard Kipling |authorlink=Rudyard Kipling |chapter=How the Leopard got his Spots |title=Just So Stories for Little Children|year=1902 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414175602/http://www.sff.net/people/karawynn/justso/leopard.htp|archivedate=2013-04-14}}</ref> It has been used to criticize evolutionary explanations of traits that have been proposed to be [[adaptation]]s, particularly in the [[Creation–evolution controversy|evolution–creation debates]]<ref name="Isaak2007">{{cite book |author=Mark Isaak |title=The Counter-Creationism Handbook |url=https://archive.org/details/countercreationi0000isaa |url-access=registration |year=2007 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-24926-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/countercreationi0000isaa/page/102 102]}}</ref> and in debates regarding research methods in [[sociobiology]]<ref name="Love2003"/> and [[evolutionary psychology]].<ref name="Buller2005">{{cite book |author=David J. Buller |title=[[Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature]] |year=2005 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-02579-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/adaptingminds00davi/page/86 86–87] }}</ref>
However, the first widely acknowledged use of the phrase in the modern and pejorative sense seems to have originated in 1978 with [[Stephen Jay Gould]], a prominent paleontologist and popular science writer.<ref name="Gottlieb2012">{{Cite journal |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/it-aint-necessarily-so |author=Anthony Gottlieb |title=It Ain't Necessarily So |date=17 September 2012}}</ref> Gould expressed deep skepticism as to whether evolutionary psychology could ever provide objective explanations for human behavior, even in principle; additionally, even if it were possible to do so, Gould did not think that it could be proven in a properly scientific way.<ref name="Gottlieb2012"/> In the ensuing years
== Criticism ==
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