Having written this, I realized I'm doing it wrong. I should make him explain it to them.
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My 6 yo was so excited when he grasped how natural selection works that he makes me explain it to all his friends, like some kind of parlor trick.
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Relatable.
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This is my favorite Tweet of 2018.
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His excitement is warranted. The only oneswho aren’t have some baggage or an uninspired teacher.
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I remember learning it - I think I was 8yo - from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos". One of the first genuine epiphanies of my life. Happy for your 6 yo!
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The Heike crabs - so great!
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I really understood Natural selection at 26. I envy your kid
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That's Great, now explain to them Devolution.
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It is actually hard to understand. Darwin understood it, but his great champion Huxley didn't. Genes don't care about the species, or even the individual. And yes, I do think that ascribing motivation to genes is a useful way to think about it.
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Genes have motivation but no intelligence. Computers have intelligence but no motivation. Humans have both (but both come from our genes, and you won't understand either without understanding our genes motivation).
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