Tag: evolutionary biology
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New York City, the best mating place and our prehistoric instincts. Why is it different nowadays?
The world’s most populous cities hold a special place in the hearts of people. Traveling and immigration to other places are our evolutionary adaptations how to spread our selfish genes. When people live at their original places, they find a lack of mating partners, resources, reciprocal altruism, status potential, forming alliances and security (large groups…
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Why is impossible for a lot of people to leave their faith?
The truth that all religions are false is nearly (I always want to leave a certain piece of probability; unlike the vast majority of believers) indisputable. Just for starter: evolution (including that religion is a product of it), karma, soul, prayer, creation, Gods, cycle of life, death, and rebirth, or a single, finite earthly life…
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Our moral system is extremely bad. Here are the facts
My atypical stance on human morality is given by books that are the best and the worst I have ever read. What kind of books? Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology. While the first one may be considered as a pseudoscience even though it bears a rational core and has thousands of rational claims that cannot…
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Absolutely careless and selfish people can make modern society, capitalism and welfare system
Homo sapiens programmed by selfish genes had lived in the African savanna in small family groups (in broader tribes) and tried to gain scarce resources while absolutely careless if another clan (or not to mention a foreign clan) member dies. Careless about the well-being of other people, the animalistic morality we live by these days…
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State atheism as a preferable model? The 21st century is the century of religion!
Welcome to the 21st century! The age of science, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, sustainability, space exploration, social media – and now guess what – yes, religion. Christianity: Approximately 2.3 billion adherentsIslam: Approximately 1.9 billion adherents (while the world’s population is projected to grow 32% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to…
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Wikipedia – Instead of promoting rationality, they tell you how many people died somewhere
Who would think that Wikipedia which should promote scientific discourse, free inquiry, and rationality is living in obscurantism? People are evolutionary programmed that if you kill a child that is a problem (and, of course, it should be). And since the means of contraception didn’t exist nearly all the time people were in existence, when…
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Elon Musk, evolutionary psychology and why we are obsessed with famous people?
As I have found this topic untouched by evolutionary psychology (please correct me if I am wrong), I will offer my amateurish view. People love to stock and read hundreds of books about famous people. They want to be just like them, want to be close to them and gain their attention. The hunger-gathering groups…
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You fail in business and you will feel it. Doctors can basically kill people without punishment
When you fail in a private sphere (especially in business) you will feel the dire consequences immediately. The commercial sphere is tough. But excluding all the wars the doctors kill more people than homicide do. An earlier study conducted in 2009 found that an estimated 200,000 people die from medical malpractice annually in the US.…
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Why are anarchism and communism utopian?
Just like philosophy (or its continental side) or religion political ideologies don’t reflect scientific progress. When anarchism and communism came into existence there was no evolutionary theory. People believed in a blank state. People are born like blank sheets of paper. It just depends on how you raise them. Of course, people are selfish but…
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Creationism
Evolution is not just a theory, it is also a fact as well. When Charles Darwin published his book “The Origin of Species” there were only fossils and their similarity to other fossils and current animals (and mutual geographic proximity). With precise dating of fossils, we now know the T-Rex fossils were founded in some…