Tag: human behavior
Do Fungi Have Free-Will?
Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff.
Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology
“Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates.”
Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present
If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.
There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind
We are free to accept ad hoc evo psych explanations if we wish. Like astrology and palm reading, they make good conversation pieces.
Is It a Boy or a Girl?
Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other.