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Human Creativity Revisited
Responding to Michael Ruse's thoughtful response to my essays on "Human Creativity: Accelerating Complexity and Evolutionary Discontinuity" and his...
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Human Creativity Considered Critically
In May of this year Billy Grassie published a three-part series on the subject of “Human Creativity: Expanding Complexity...
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Good and Evil: Reshaping our Moral Universe
General Augusto Pinochet is now back in his native Chile amid a welter of recriminations. He stands accused of...
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Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
Although it is a well-written book and Robert Wright is a clever journalist with a bent for spinning evolutionary...
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Konrad Lorenz, National Socialism, and Epistemology
You can separate out the context of discovery from the context of justification, but anyone who studies real science...
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Being Mean to Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould is the best-known evolutionist in Americaand his fame goes well beyond his country’s borders. My father,...
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The Wisdom to Know – Either Oars
When a problem persists against our usual repertoire of responses we really have only two choices. One is to...
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Evolutionary Reflections on The Great War and the New Millenium
Evolutionary biologists have long been interested in war and aggression. It was something Darwin talked of in his Descent...
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Love Thy Neighbor
Altruistic love (or “love of neighbor”) can be directed to kin, friends, strangers, the neediest, and even for enemies. ...
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Selfish Genes and Kindly People
When Alfred Nobel instituted his prizes at the beginning of this century, he set up awards in physics and...