This looks like it may well be a cracking read. I do appreciate Ken’s quality of mind as per his chat with the Gad Father. consciousnessevolutionary biologyEvolutionary PsychologyFree willgad saadKenneth MillerReasonreligion and science
Here’s a elegantly and amusingly written review by Tanya Gold of David Buss and Cindy Meston’s book from about seven years ago — way and above the pseudo-sophisticate dross that The Guardian typically dishes up. And here they are in person. cindy mestondavid bussevolutionary biologyEvolutionary PsychologysexTanya Gold
I had the good fortune to meet at a conference the very excellent Frances White who is featured in this documentary. Frances is so much more interesting and empirically sound than the cultural anthropologists who typically operate under a highly derivative and lazy Marxist lens. anthropologybonobosEmpathyevolutionary biologyfrances whiteSociality
Jerry Coyne’s latest on his blog Why Evolution is True. To claim that there are no evolutionary differences in behavior and psychology between men and women is fatuous. anti-sciencecultural evolutionevolutionary biologyEvolutionary Psychologyideologuesideologyjerry coyneregressive left
Robert Wright in The New York Times on the late great William Hamilton “I’m also quite open to the view that there is some kind of ultimate good which is of a religious nature — that we just have to look beyond what the evolutionary theory tells us and accept promptings of what ultimate good is, coming…
A recent discussion held at Oxford. (The picture above is Darwin, not Dennett :~) ) Daniel DennettRichard Dawkins
Look out for my chum David Livingstone Smith’s entry “War, Evolution, and the Nature of Human Nature“ Human evolutionViolence and Abuse
My chum David Livingstone Smith has this piece in Psychology Today. David LivingstoneHumanPsychology TodaySocial science
Staying with the literature theme of a few days ago and earlier today, here is another write up on Jonathan Gottschall’s new book and an article by JG himself here and a related review article of another book by John Gray here. E. O. WilsonJonathan GottschallJonathan HaidtLiteratureNew AtheismSolzhenitsynStorytelling
E.O. Wilson is still going strong and is still stirring things up after all these years. E.O. is on my mind since I’m co-authoring a paper on stigmergy and he is one of the major players. Here are write-ups of his latest work. None other than Michael Gazzaniga in the WSJ Washington Post New York Times…
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