It doesn't make sense to me that there would be a single mammal on earth that doesn't experience some form of emotion, whether it resembles ours or not.
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No matter how sophisticated we considered ourselves to be, once the number of individuals capable of filling roles greatly exceeded the number of roles,
Worth a full read. One of the few non-fiction sciency / pop-psychy books I've made it all the way through in the last few years. (Most of the others got boring or repetitive, I thought...)
Very well said. I also worry that at this point it's just stuck too far in the realm of the theoretical, mostly because our understanding of the relationship between genetics and behavior is still relatively underdeveloped. And when we're just talking about tracking personality traits and temperaments across various…
Oh, I dunno. I feel like there might be a market for a virulently anti-MRI evolutionary psychology writer. Bit of a niche, though.
I self-loathe with the best of them; I was the oft-mocked and reviled "nice guy" on a number of occasions when I was young and depressed, and I hated myself for it even while I felt powerless to make it stop. Not sexually aggressive, mind you...I just ended a few friendships in bad, embarrassing, deeply regrettable…
I'm a huge fan of Julian Jaynes' Theory of bicameralism because he at least made an attempt to look way back in a scientific manner.
There's probably a ton of shit many governments have gotten away with that would ignite revolt if the population knew of it.
Yup. I hate it so much. I won't say it's the last academic bastion they've got, because the MRA mentality still permeates plenty of academia. But it's one of the few I can think of with a plurality of adherents still actively looking to justify male supremacy "scientifically."
Haha that sounds mildly frustrating...
I'd be curious about a mathematical analysis of ideal breeding patterns for humans. Did the research you're referring to most likely dealt with a pattern of civilization similar to what we have today?
My belief is that if you were to measure men and women according to most temperament / innate personality traits - anything that comes down to genetics exclusively - you'd almost always wind up with something that looks a bit like this. (Ignore the specifics being measured here; I'm just using this as an example of…
Agreed. That's the other thing that scares me away. It's all absurdly speculative. And hell, if you're operating under the (probable) assumption that genetics affected and continue to affect culture and vice-versa...10,000-15,000 years is a long-ass time given the burgeoning study of transgenerational epigenetics.…
I was interested in evo psych before I knew evo psych was a thing. Then I started reading up on it and found that the field appears to be dominated - or maybe it's just public perception of the field? - by asshole Neanderthals looking to justify backwards thinking behavior. Now there's this reflexive pushback -…
Bah you beat me to it.
Judging by the rage I'b betting this touches you personally in some way, and I'm truly sorry for whatever happened. My intention was to mock the attorney for what appeared to be a whiny, pathetic complaint about how unfair it was that the Church be dragged into this. I have no doubt that the Church handled things…
I think the future will be dystopian and borderline unrecognizable by our standards, but I don't think civilization will come to an end.**
Don't worry, I'm pissed at everyone!