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“Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can’t teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings.”
― The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
― The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
“The motto here is that sometimes the apparently inferior choice has a better upgrade path: Evolution can’t know this, and we aren’t particularly good at recognizing it ourselves. On the genetic level, it translates as follows: Natural selection may solve the same problems differently in different populations, and what appears to be the most elegant solution at the time may not in fact turn out to be the one that works best in the long run. The seemingly inferior choice”
― The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
― The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
“Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy*
* some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.”
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* some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.”
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