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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @NinjaEconomics

      @BarryJM_Guitar @hankgreen There'll never be one coz we all see problem w claiming bad behaviour to be a form of femininity.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    2. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HPluckrose @NinjaEconomics @hankgreen

      Wasn't it masculine traits that led to the development of tools that led to civilization as we know?

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar @NinjaEconomics @hankgreen

      I don't know. Men certainly work more with 'things' but suspect women behind much household stuff

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HPluckrose @BarryJM_Guitar and

      But this is based on late medieval history in which housewife role involved much ingenuity &skill

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HPluckrose @NinjaEconomics @hankgreen

      It may have been a woman that developed the first spear, but I can recall. I recall seeing a docu

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar @HPluckrose and

      about it. It even went as far as to say our imagination as it is could be traced back to that moment.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar @NinjaEconomics @hankgreen

      Might be a bit simplistic.

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    8. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HPluckrose @NinjaEconomics @hankgreen

      Probably lol I'm summing it up really badly. First tool development led to our evolution.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar

      At some point it became better for us to stand up & consequently lose power & balance but have hands free to do things.

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    10. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Our brains and our hands took priority is it fair to say?

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
      Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar

      Nearly ended us tho didn't it? Hips got smaller & heads bigger! We might be an evolutionary blip. Other humans extinct.

      11:47 AM - 29 Sep 2016
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        2. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Yeah you could argue that our own tools could end us (WMD's and so on), or development of AI possible mistake.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
          Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar

          And this intelligence seems to only have evolved once whilst really valuable things like eyes many times separately.

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        4. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Something that woke me up to evolution was how similar we are to most other creatures, eyes, ears, nose. Related.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Sep 2016
          Replying to @BarryJM_Guitar

          I'm fascinated by our morality. The Moral Animal: Why We are the Way We Are such a good book & The Atheist & the Bonobo

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Barry J M(Fox-Balls)‏ @BarryJM_Guitar 29 Sep 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Cool I'll have to check them out. There's a lot to wonder about and its pretty great to explore it.

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