Tag: evolutionary psychology
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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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Humanities educational minimum even if you hate humanities
I completely get it. You have an IQ of 145 and, a degree in engineering, like the Theory of general relativity, Number theory, quantum mechanics, and Set theory. But humanities? Because you hate humanities. As they say, humanities are for those less intellectually able. And while research requires an extremely high IQ, the exact sciences are objectively unmatched. I am not shy to…
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How living in disguise is normal for people
I was born after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. And they always told me how it was normal living in disguise. Pretending you like the regime, concealing your opinions, revealing your real preference only in privacy. Since the new regime was the best that has ever happened, now it is not normal living in disguise. But it was totally wrong. To be honest with you, when…
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News and decision-making made by prehistoric instincts
TikTok, YouTube, streaming services, movies, stories or media news. Everything is built into our evolutionary personality. Have you ever read a column that was only based on mathematics and statistics with little written text (not to mention whether it had a recurring appearance based on whether it is important or not)? Of course, you are…
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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,…
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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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Serial killer Carl Panzram as a moral man, how to judge people, the legal system and free will
People are evolutionarily equipped to be highly vindictive. “Germans can be lucky! We could have killed them all because of what they had done in WW2!” A sometimes popular Czech opinion. “I wish Vladimir Putin the worst agony that can ever be!” Another popular opinion. When it comes to jail times, most people are for…
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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…