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It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Ove...more

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The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty...more

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Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism...more

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One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against ...more

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A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

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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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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the research...more

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The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that...more

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Many textbooks point out that no animal has evolved wheels and cite the fact as an example of how evolution is often incapable of finding the optimal ...more

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The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zipp...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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The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished b...more

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I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

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the mind is a neural computer

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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