Category Archives: Biology

The Extraordinary Vision Of Aborigines

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Luke Ford

At 2:40 mark of this interview, philosopher Nathan Cofnas says: “As a visiting high school student at Columbia University which is where I eventually went to get my BA and I took an anthropology class on uh the evolution of … Continue reading →

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Everybody wants to change the world

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Luke Ford

A few years ago, I developed the realization that every form of life wants to transform the world and that these efforts inevitably harm other forms of life, thus creating a war for survival. When I talked about this with … Continue reading →

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2nd Edition: Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2024 book: * Democrats: Sweaty, disorderly, offhand, imaginative, tolerant, skillful at give – and – take Republicans: Respectable, sober, purposeful, self – righteous, cut – and – dried, boring (Clinton Rossiter) * the left … Continue reading →

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What’s Normal? Reconciling Biology and Culture

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Allan V. Horwitz: * Contemporary developed societies are the safest, healthiest, and most prosperous that have ever existed, so we might expect that their citizens would have low levels of fearfulness. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Charles Murray’s Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Luke Ford

Link: We should hope—emphasis on the should—for a discipline of Actual Social Science, whose practitioners strive to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, with the same passionately dispassionate objectivity they might bring to the study … Continue reading →

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