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Category Archives: Evolution
The Opportunist
Opportunism is often adaptive. Calling it bad is mostly a moral overlay, not an evolutionary one. From an evolutionary standpoint, opportunism is sensitivity to changing incentives plus willingness to exploit openings. That combo is gold in unstable environments. Food scarcity, … Continue reading
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Why Are Calipers Cool Again?
Steve Sailer asks a sharp question. ChatGPT says: Calipers are cool again for dog skulls because nobody’s identity is tied to a Shih Tzu’s cranial index. Dog morphology is politically neutral. Human morphology is radioactive. Same tool, same math, different … Continue reading
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Critiquing Emotional Sobriety
Author Allen Berger is right in the core of his teachings on emotional sobriety, but loose at the rhetorical edges, where the language of self-authorship flatters a buffered ego. Berger says at the 33:20 mark: “It’s a powerful moment when … Continue reading
David Pinsof’s Moral Naturalism
David Pinsof writes: …moral judgments are about the specific kinds of situations that our moral emotions evolved to detect. Just as a smoke alarm is designed to detect smoke, anger is “designed” by natural selection to detect unfair treatment, compassion … Continue reading
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Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
David M. Buss writes in this 2024 book: * The theory of natural selection has many virtues that scientists seek in a scientific theory: (1) it explains known facts, (2) it leads to new predictions, and (3) it provides guidance … Continue reading
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NYT: What the Bloom After L.A.’s Wildfires Reveals About Our Ecological Future
A big article in the New York Times says: “Many of Southern California’s plants and animals evolved with fire as part of their life cycles. Can they weather the worsening fires to come?” Elites love explaining how evolution operates for … Continue reading
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Why Are Ashley St. Clair & Grimes Creating Drama Online Over Elon Musk? (2-21-25)
Philosopher Michael Huemer writes: There’s a stereotype held by men that “women are crazy”, and a stereotype held by women that “men are jerks”. 2.1. What are jerks? I think it mostly means people who are overly self-centered. They think … Continue reading
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The Myth Of Morality
Richard Joyce writes in this 2007 book: * We have evolved to categorize aspects of the world using moral concepts. Natural selection has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, demands … Continue reading
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (2005)
Here are some highlights: * Consider “stranger anxiety” as a candidate psychological adaptation. Its function is to motivate the infant to recoil from potentially dangerous humans and to maintain close proximity to caregivers, thereby avoiding hazards that strangers might pose. … Continue reading
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Darwin
Frederick Crews writes in 2001: * Darwin’s contemporaries saw at once what a heavy blow he was striking against piety. His theory entailed the inference that we are here today not because God reciprocates our love, forgives our sins, and … Continue reading
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