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There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - deco...more

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The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex is natural and go...more

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Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts and it misstates the the...more

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No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give the...more

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The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indeed, the accusation is baffling on the face of it, e...more

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Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer f...more

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Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attrac...more

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Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to bree...more

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Many moral advances have taken the form of a shift in sensibilities that made an action seem more ridiculous than sinful, such as dueling, bullfightin...more

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Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

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Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human n...more

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I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. ...more

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They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exqui...more

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.