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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Evo Psychology</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>Bloodthirstiness by any other name?</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/319</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Winding down a tediously long essay describing in detail the vengeance driven tribal battles in New Guinea, Jared Diamond finds in them a justification and need for bloodthirstiness:
Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance Is Ours: The New Yorker
[...]
We regularly ignore the fact that the thirst for vengeance is among the strongest of human emotions. It ranks with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Not so] Black and White</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/258</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one valuable insight that philosophers of science and sociologists have demonstrated it is that issues in science (and metascience) are frequently decided (or at least argued) in quite non-&#8221;scientific&#8221; ways (by which I mean what is generally claimed to be the scientific way &#8212; in truth a formalisation of rationality, common sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ and the poverty of thought</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/230</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This from The Observer:
Low IQs are Africa&#8217;s curse, says lecturer &#124; The Observer
The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent than people in richer countries.
Satoshi Kanazawa, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bicycle is not enough</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/70</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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&#160;


I was re-reading Philip Kitcher&#8217;s comprehensive critique of SocioBiology over the weekend. Titled &#34;Vaulting Ambition&#34; its a serious and detailed work that&#160; works through the arguments and the models. The book has the convincing mathematics inside; I will stop at posting the more simple and emotional appeal in the introduction:



&#160;A Bicycle Is Not Enough


When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Sloan Wilson on niceness and religion</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/40</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous entry was about the thoughts of a particular philosophical/biological group  (neo-darwinism, darwinian fundamentalism, evo psychology, etc) on religion. Below is an essay on David Wilson, a biologist with a different approach and attitude. Edward Wilson too has suggested that religion (what others have called the religion meme) evolves due to its fitness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which Dennett receives a well deserved whupping&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/39</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a certain vulnerability, of over-reaching, in acts of triumphalism that robs the agent of his well-deserved preening (we saw some of that in the fall of Bush (at least in popularity) in short order after proclamations of a &#8216;mandate&#8217;). There was a time when Selfish Gene theorists and other reductionists were somewhat of [...]]]></description>
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