HumanNature

My thoughts :

Distinguishing ThreeKindsOfNaturalConstraint

More on EvolutionaryPsychology, UnitsOfSelection

Is human evolution accelerating? https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/.premium.MAGAZINE-modern-life-is-accelerating-human-evolution-and-that-can-prove-destructive-1.10193732

Defence of economic man : https://web.archive.org/web/20040804003244/http://www.techcentralstation.com/062104A.html

Though I'm not convinced by his argument that preference is transitive. Perhaps we don't have transitive preferences but just have a higher level mechanism that kicks in and stops us cycling at an arbitrary point. Or perhaps escapes the loop by appealing to another agent.

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Wired on GeneTherapy for couples :http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/start.html?pg=9

• HardworkGene
• Numbers > 2 are learned : [(comment http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996303 (comment]tp://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996303) http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002377.html))
• Political brains : http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/magazine/22IDEA.html
  • If empathy is hardwired then does it have commercial implications? : http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com/crossroadsdispatches/2004/08/tompeters_says.html))

• Critique of StevenPinker : http://www.hereinstead.com/sys-tmpl/bmenadonpinker/

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