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Around the World in 40,000 Years, and 7 Failed Explanations of Race and Intelligence (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 Humans evolved in Africa. But for all of recorded history, we’ve lived all over the world. So what happened in between? There has been a lot…

Religion and the Evolution of Conflicting Thought Processes (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 Which came first in the evolution of our intelligence, science or religion? Both of them depend on abstract thinking. The evolution of our abstract thinking…

The Two Main Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 Evolutionary psychology is zoology applied to us. We, like all other animal species, have two basic instincts and three basic mental abilities. Our instincts are…

The Stone Age + 50,000 Years (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 When did the Homo sapiens species begin? If you invented a time machine, how far back in time could you go to adopt a baby…

The Five Mental Traits of Evolutionary Psychology (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 What does biology show us about psychology? At the level of molecular biology, genes are molecules that keep making copies of themselves. That’s why we…

The Three First Principles of Evolutionary Psychology (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology. That was with The Origin…

Africa 7 Million Years Ago (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived. They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today. They were the ancestors…

Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 3,500,000,000 years ago there were single celled organisms floating in the ocean. There are a lot of steps between them and us. If you focus on…

A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 Our story of the evolution of life has gotten up to multi-cellular life floating in the ocean. You know how many more steps there are…

The Evolution of Life (text)

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ACT I Scene 1 The Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Life began about 3.5 billion years ago. So how did it happen? That’s another big mystery people have…