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A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and textual matter can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. This post is crossposted on substack. Bertini, Daniele. 2020. ‘Introduction The Evolutionary Approach to Ethics: From Animal Prosociality to Human Morality’, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12(3). DOI:10.24204/EJPR.V12I3.3411 [via academia.edu or philarchive.org] This paper was chosen next…

‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak This is the author in their natural habitat, but curiously unmuddied or dusted, from the inside of the dustjacket of the book The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature. The title riffing on Desmond Morris’ The Naked Ape (tell me, if you’re under 40 would…

In Rob Kurzban’s recent How the Psychologist Got Confused Explanation is a word, but a word is not an explanation —we get an excellent diagram, a four pointer. Pointer as in to point, as in the arrow of whatever puny vector space our minds can handle at anyone time. Like most blog pieces that are engaging, like many one can learn…

I picked up Super Cooperators: Altruism, Evolution and Mathematics (or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed) by Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield sometime in 2020… —three years on my to-read shelf. Even at a decade old, it is an excellent introduction or refresher on game theory and evolution, amidst some even more excellent stories about people around Martin Nowak’s mathematical life.

Pro tip: attack the psychopaths and their grandiose narcissism, and not the authoritarian outcomes of their injurious actions to our world. A recent article 4 reasons not teaching evolution in schools is immoral on the conversation gives these points as moral reasons: equality of opportunity, free inquiry, fairness and public reasoning, and intellectual honesty, within the context that authoritarian governments east and west are…

The first on a series of books I enjoyed reading long ago. A list of these will be found at Reading guilty pleasures. I read Elaine Morgan's 1972 Descent of Woman and then 1982 The Aquatic Ape in the mid to late 80s when “man the hunter’ was, well at least to me, moribund as an idea, and so that…