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Nuclear Winter
Carl Sagan discusses the catastrophic global consequences of nuclear war, including nuclear winter, mass casualties, ecological collapse, and the potential extinction of humanity, emphasizing the urgent need for global nuclear disarmament.
sciencefriday.comBen-Nun Bloom indicates that popular measures of values and morality have a common genetic basis.
Oxford University Press • The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
A key element of natural selection then is the beneficial traits that are selected for by the environment increases the survival potential of the species. We can also apply an inversion lens, demonstrating that any adaptive response that is not useful will be selected against. As Rafe Sagarin notes in Learning from the Octopus, goes on to note, “Na
... See moreShane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Darwin was a nativist about morality: he thought that natural selection gave us minds that were preloaded with moral emotions.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
les résultats de Djerzinski étaient valides, on pouvait les considérer comme scientifiquement démontrés. Les conséquences pratiques, évidemment, étaient vertigineuses : tout code génétique, quelle que soit sa complexité, pouvait être réécrit sous une forme standard, structurellement stable, inaccessible aux perturbations et aux mutations. Toute cel
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As evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson states, “No serious scholar would think that human behavior is controlled the way animal instinct is, without the intervention of culture.”
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Brian Sullivan
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European anti-Jewishness was becoming more complex. In eastern Europe, much of it was fueled by theological claims or the accusation that the Jews had killed Jesus.* In central and western Europe, though, which was now infatuated with science, race theory developed. Now, said European racists, the problem with the Jews was their race, not their rel
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