Poaching...

May 08, 2009 17:50

So I'm reading a book about evolutionary psychology (or sociobiology if you prefer) entitled On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson which argues for the incorporation of basic biological facts concerning humans into the social sciences and humanities. For instance, our historical diet is roughly seventy percent plant matter and thirty percent animal ( Read more... )

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uberchops May 14 2009, 02:14:33 UTC
Here you go treading on my turf again, though I am intrigued by how our points of view seem to be converging as of late. And I'm glad that, despite your liberal arts education, you aren't hostile to his argument, especially given that books antiquity. Far from weakened, in the last ten years tide of evidence supporting the existence and influence of human instinct has really come in, overflowing every levee and swamping the foundation of fundamental relativism.

Though it would only further demolish any hope I have left of knowing things that you do not, I am compelled to recommend to you Lakeoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind.

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