Another chunk of #illustratednotes from 'Meat Planet' by – this time on the limitations of reductive Sociobiology! 🧬 🍖🧬
Posting these all here 👉 bit.ly/mtplanet – highlights & opinionated visual commentary building off core themes in the OG book.
Conversation
For IRL evidence of sociobiology alive & thriving, check the first sentence of this NYT article published Thursday: nyti.ms/2Yz3JIK
“technology’s godlike powers have increased dramatically, while the ancient, Paleolithic impulses of our brains have remained the same”...
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... and “our Paleolithic brains aren’t built for omniscient awareness of the world’s suffering”
Damn Paleolithic brains always ruining all the fun ;)
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Fun fact – Marshall Sahlins’s critque in “The Use and Abuse of Biology” I reference in the illustration is primarily a breakdown of Edward O. Wilson’s theories – the same “father of sociobiology” routinely referenced in this article