Fair enough. It's still an odd mistake to make. The only other motive I can think of is religious. It's a bit far-fetched. The idea is that Darwin has...
From their perspective, if they have any thing that can be described as such, they are in a dangerous situation: deprived of any immune system of thei...
why the title, do you think? Why this conclusion? ("We are born selfish") You've read the book, right? It didn't strike you as odd? It does strike me ...
1. The demonstration was not his but from Hamilton and Price. 2. Price's math is actually based on kin selection, a form of group selection. The exclu...
I suppose this title represents the book's thesis, no? My point is that there is something fishy about his presentation of a theory about the possibil...
Okay, cool. One of the things that really dawns on you watching is how easy it is to misinterpret strange customs from afar, but also in all fairness,...
Yes, but the Reverse Exploration is not a fiction, it's a documentary, seen from the perspective of two Papuan chiefs exploring France. The guys const...
And you are very sure of your own correctness too, so this is nor here nor there... The question of Wayfarer had to do with the meaning of life and fi...
Two tribesmen from Papua New Guinea head off on an expedition in the heart of a strange and entirely new kind of civilization: they want to explore ev...
What part of "This concept of life and its relations was humanizing and gave to the Lakota an abiding love. It filled his being with the joy and myste...
Nope. You said: (my bolding) I presented quotes about the meaning of our lives, as parts of nature, from a Native American writer, including one direc...
One of the wisest things ever said on the topic of natural selfishness and altruism was said more than 2000 years ago by a Rabbi who had no idea of ge...
Maybe whatever you are looking for is not what they were looking for. I've read quite a lot of Levi Strauss, and he too speaks of complex knowledge sy...
In organ transplant, the issue is that often the immune system of the recipient does not recognise the new organ as belonging to the individual. It se...
Experiments have demonstrated the ability of some monocellular animals to learn, forget, and relearn something or some behavior (relearn in far less t...
I'm not saying Dawkins was a nazi. I am saying that the reason Widgley was furious is that she spotted (or believed she did spot) an echo of social Da...
Don't confuse me with a sucker. I could already spot a fake philosopher when the book came out. I remember it took me about 2 seconds of analysis, as ...
You are lucky man. I have moved so many times in my life that I only have kept a dozen of my old LPs. Not that I ever bought a lot of them. There was ...
In my experience it's useful to start from them kids' own philosophical questions rather than ram Kant down their throats. As a teen I was babysitting...
Very true. And yet, metaphysically speaking the greatest advantage of the theory of evolution is that it does not require a central all powerful 'big ...
Yes, very true. All scientists have been wrong so far, one way or another. But the dispute here is not really about genetics. It has ideological under...
Genetic overlap between humans and plants? IDK. Our basic metabolism is very similar to theirs, we breathe as plants do, except their have photosynthe...
You and your cat share about 90% of common DNA. You're far closer to him phylogenetically than you think. Going on a limb here but... Let's see. The P...
The first band I sort of really clicked on was French band Telephone, who had fantastic lyrics. I saw then three times in concert. They disbanded afte...
TC Matic was a punk Belgium group whom I saw live in my youth. Putain, putain C'est vachement bien Nous sommes quand même Tous des Européens! https://...
Nice! "Ca plane pour moi" means more that "it works for me"; it means "I'm gliding" or less literally "everything's super smooth for me". https://www....
Further in the same wiki entry on Gould, a paragraph is illuminating: So, it's all about altruism, after all. NOT selfishness, and NOT some sort of me...
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