In a Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History Nicholas Wade, provides research that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional. This has implications for the highly religiously politicized social sciences.
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Agree that evolution has, and is occurring. Sexual selection still hugely important for understanding aspects of human psychology, though.
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How often do you encounter the unmitigated arrogance that suggests humans are somehow exempt from the influences of evolution?
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Fortunately the evolution does not care about human arrogance. Unfit behavior is a dead end without any future.
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A behavior is only 'unfit', in evolutionary terms, if it results in a lack of reproduction. Anything else is completely irrelevant.
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Humans are evidently the one and only mammal species for whom evolution limited itself to our genitalia ONLY.
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The irony, of course, is that men and women are actually significantly closer to each other in temperament than other large predatory mammals.
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Bears can't be around cubs, for they will eat them.
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I subscribe to neither “our evolved biology has no effect” nor “our biology is the entire story”, as I’m not a materialist.
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Ours is a lazy generation, which demands that reality itself be simple rather than complex, because that would suit us better.
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Worse still, it demands reality conform to whim.
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Logic is not allowed here! No. NO. NO! We are all the same and if I don't have equality of outcome with you then it's because of the evil white male patriarchy holding us all down! How DARE you! You racist, misogynistic homophobic bigot. Did I nail their rebuttal or what?
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You forgot 'internalized misogyny', 'tone deaf', 'problematic', 'toxic', etc... B+
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A single instance of 'positionality' would have gotten you an A.
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What was I thinking???




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Clearly you weren't. Now, as penance, you are to recite three Hail Anitas, and conduct a privilege check.
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Hate facts.
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No. Evolution only operates from the neck down in humans.
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