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• It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
• All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
• Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…
• Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the…
• As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

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