Tag: evolutionary biology
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The fourth wave of feminism: Enemy of science?
Fourth-wave feminism emerged around 2012. It focuses on issues like sexual harassment, body image, and intersectionality. Activists use social media as a key tool. Platforms like X (Twitter) and Instagram amplify voices. Online campaigns such as #MeToo raised awareness globally. The movement fights against systemic problems. These include workplace harassment, rape culture, and gender inequality.…
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Wikipedia through evolutionary psychology perspective
“Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians. It operates as a collaborative platform where users can write, edit, and update articles on a wide range of topics. It follows an open-content model, allowing almost anyone to contribute, with content overseen by editors and administrators to…
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Deeply ingrained religion, a plague
Even though I grew up in a non-religious environment, I know and I am fully aware religion is deeply ingrained in some people. But let’s say my knowledge was on the academic level – textbooks, peer-reviewed papers, books. I have seen many documents about megachurches in the USA, but it was my very first experience…
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Acting like animals: migrating, traveling, and nomadism
Even if genetics, evolutionary biology, mathematics, physics, astrophysics, and chemistry didn’t exist and evolutionary psychology would have existed, our belief in God would be shaken, because people act like animals, thus God really did not want people to be animals. This knowledge goes well with migrating, traveling, and nomadism. Arnold Schwarzenegger said: “Everything I have,…
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Religion vs. reality: overpresence of deity
A lot of been described in connection with religions in terms of rationality. Such arguments didn’t omit the perception of respective spiritual power. However, for people who are not biologically inclined to have spiritual experience (just like me), there needs to be added further argumentation. Also, religion vs. reality can be useful for people who…
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Are humans worse than animals?
Denailing, boiling to death in a boiler, putting needles below the nails, brutal beatings, waterboarding, electroshocks, stress positions, sleep deprivation, starvation, and temperature extremes. As I am writing this article, a minimum of tens of thousands of people are undergoing this “humane” treatment (even because of the Russo-Ukrainian War). So are humans worse than animals?…
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Golden Rule and its criticism
The Golden Rule can be simplified: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” And this may sound like something perfect to various moral systems all around the world. But I offer a heavy criticism of the Golden Rule. Not only it isn’t much good in theory, but humankind is (surprisingly) never…
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Your wonderful city view is just a mating place
Homo sapiens are often obsessed with skylines (or city views), whether it is Shangai, New York City, London etc. But it is nothing but a mere evolutionary adaptation (a mating place) of how to spread your selfish genes. Of course, you can have a bond between your birthplace and so on. However, evolutionary fitness attraction…
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Adults laughing at the stylish teenagers explained by Darwinism
Adults tend to laugh at teenagers as they have their idols, wear distinct clothes, have common musical tastes and influencers attract them. They laugh at teenagers because they are stylish. Not only it is a huge hypocrisy because adults are programmed to such a behavior which possesses evolutionary advantages as well. So does Darwinism explain it all? Development psychology in teenagers. Darwinism at its best Teenagers have…
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The differences between pseudosciences and evolutionary psychology
Some people claim evolutionary psychology is a pseudoscience just like any other. No hard evidence, no core observations, no skeletons we could match with others and no DNA analysis that would tell us more about our prehistoric behavior that actually exists to these days. But putting it on the same level with astrology, creationism, homeopathy,…