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Evolution Does Not Defeat Naturalism

Jim wrote 3 days ago: Alvin Plantinga is one of those philosophers that the ID crowd likes to name-drop when attempting to … more →

Tags: Current Events, Debate, Science, Adaptation, adaptive, Atheism, Belief, Belief-formation, Biology

Altruism against Predation

saij wrote 4 days ago: This is a review of a recent article, cooperation in Defense against a predator,  in the Journal of … more →

Tags: 5859, Behavioral Economics, Evolution, Science, Sociobiology, Altruism, kin-selection, predation, theoretical biology

Evolutionary Psychology and The Economist

Jim wrote 5 days ago: I read in article in The Economist on demographics and retirement. In it, the author cited the … more →

Tags: Journal, Satire, Social Darwinism, Sociobiology

Challenges To Evolutionary Psychology

Dan Fincke wrote 5 days ago: Interesting arguments.  I’m not sure how many of them threaten the credibility of either evolu … more →

Tags: Psychology, moral psychology, Evolution, Sociobiology, Genetics, rape, Jealousy, infidelity

Sex, Evolution and Marketing

sean hazell wrote 5 days ago: An excerpt from Geoffrey Miller’s Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior: “I star … more →

Tags: His Nurture Posts, Consumer Behavior, Marketing

Steven Pinker - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews

Spaceweaver wrote 1 week ago: This is the second of a three highly interesting interviews made by Richard Dawkins. Highly recommen … more →

Tags: Culture & Civilization, Evolution, Darwin

Chagnon among the Yanomamo4 comments

louisproyect wrote 1 week ago: When I first got word of the Jared Diamond/New Yorker magazine scandal, I could not help but think … more →

Tags: Anthropology

We are who we say we are2 comments

forwearemany wrote 1 week ago: This is a good article on literary darwinism, or at least one that agrees with my preconceived notio … more →

Tags: Art, Neuroscience, Nemeses, literary darwinisim, Nonsense, language, Sapir-Whorf, who we are

Don't throw the evolutionary psychology baby out with the bathwater

peterreiner wrote 1 week ago: Evolutionary psychology is under attack again.  Leading the charge is Sharon Begley who has an ince … more →

Tags: Neuroplasticity, Science Communication

Genetic determinism? Not so fast. 34 comments

whyevolutionistrue wrote 1 week ago: There are several items in the news today relevant to evolutionary psychology.  First, David Brooks, … more →

Tags: Articles, david brooks, Geoffrey Miller, Newsweek, Sharon Begley

Evolutionary psychology gets a grilling

brachinus wrote 1 week ago: Evolutionary psychology gets a grilling by Newsweek. This strikes me as a bit slanted, and overly w … more →

Tags: Evolution, Newsweek, Psychology

Is Patriotism a Subconscious Way for Humans to Avoid Disease?1 comment

egelwan wrote 1 week ago: A number of scientists argue that we have a so-called ‘behavioral immune system’ that f … more →

Tags: Sociology

Taking aim at evolutionary psychology

Sanjay Srivastava wrote 1 week ago: Sharon Begley has a doozy of an article in Newsweek taking aim at evolutionary psychology. The artic … more →

Tags: behavioral ecology, Newsweek, Science journalism, Sharon Begley

Of Presents and Penguins

gypsyturtle wrote 2 weeks ago: So, per Iowa’s suggestion, I’ve been reading Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, a … more →

Tags: Prose, Dating, Relationships

Meme-sphere2 comments

ender227 wrote 2 weeks ago: There is an idea developed by Richard Dawkins that he calls a ‘meme’ (pronounced ‘ … more →

Tags: identity, Philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Rorty, Dawkins, Evolutionary Biology, Ideas!

Is Atheism Just the Denial of Gods?11 comments

santitafarella wrote 2 weeks ago: Sometimes contemporary atheists try to wall-off the psychological implications of becoming an atheis … more →

Tags: agnostic, Apologetics, Atheism, atheist, Christianity, God, God(s), harden the fuck up, Islam

Narrative's evolutionary roots

Richard Gilbert wrote 2 weeks ago: from Origins of Human Communication, Chaper Six, “The Grammatical Dimension,” by Michael Tomasello “ … more →

Tags: Narrative, noted, Structure, Syntax, michael tomasello, writing

Gorgeous women make men act stupid

pragmasynesi wrote 2 weeks ago: “Beautiful women in advertisements make men act stupid.”  Proving the obvious? And of co … more →

Tags: Behaviour, brain, Advertisements, Attractive, female, male

The Woolly Mammoth and the Noble Savage16 comments

louisproyect wrote 2 weeks ago: Back in the mid-1990s when I first began writing about American Indians and ecology, I was surprise … more →

Tags: indigenous


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