Evolutionary psychology examined
David Buller has written a book, Adapting Minds, which critically examines some of the claims of evolutionary psychology. He’s summarized three of his ana...
Posts from my blog the Thinking Meat Project (2006–2018)
David Buller has written a book, Adapting Minds, which critically examines some of the claims of evolutionary psychology. He’s summarized three of his ana...
I closed an earlier essay (That time of year) with a quote about the curious blend of terror and exhilaration that the contemplation of deep time can bring. On ...
I went to hear Albert Bandura give a talk this afternoon on “Moral disengagement in the perpetration of inhumanities.” Bandura holds the David Starr...
One component of type A behavior is hostility. A recent study of more than 3,000 people showed that while the distribution of different levels of hostility was ...
I just got back from an excellent production of Macbeth at Indiana University. When I think of Macbeth, I think of ambition, the lust for power, and violence (a...
I read a kind of a peculiar story from Wired News. A company called Biopresence is working on a way to create living memorials by adding human DNA from a dead p...
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang… Shakespeare’s sonnet compares human aging with the aging of ...
What is the goal of conservation biology or environmental activism? (Or to put it more generally, what is our obligation toward nature?) If the goal is to prese...
Well, it’s evidently more dangerous these days, but that’s because of us humans. This article from Live Science discusses how things that used to be...
Is religion good for you or bad for you, in an evolutionary sense? I’ve certainly seen plenty of evidence in my own life for both positive and negative em...