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Memetic Foundations of Human Value
Leo Guinan • 5 cards
a belief
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
What the ‘prevailing wisdom’ of the selfish gene, the tragedy of the commons, ‘red in tooth and claw’ actually show us is that we are deeply susceptible to stories about ourselves. Stories are so powerful that they can be employed to redirect our innate desire to be good and cause us to take an immoral action.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Evolution does not care about objectivity – it only cares about fitness.
Rory Sutherland • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
In species in which males stick by their mates or protect their own offspring, it’s because male brains were slightly modified to be more responsive to oxytocin.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Readers acquainted with the recent literature on human sexuality will be familiar with what we call the standard narrative of human sexual evolution (hereafter shortened to “the standard narrative”). It goes something like this: 1. Boy meets girl. 2. Boy and girl assess one another’s mate value from perspectives based upon their differing reproduct
... See moreCacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
