This View of Life
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Lack of exchange explains why culture evolves more slowlyIt is now well established that cultural evolution is a fundamentally Darwinian process, exhibiting incremental descent with modification, semi-random innovation (trial and error), competition among ideas, selective survival and other Darwinian features. One key ingredient of Darwinian evolution is genetic recombination, usually through sexual reproduction, which makes evolution a cumulative phenomenon.

Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives.Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives

While it is intuitively plausible that teaching [critical thinking] skills should be useful, evidence that they are teachable is sparse.

Norwegians Enlist EI to Help Preserve the Norwegian Model for Quality of Life Standards.

The controversy continues about biological basis for race.

Lampert’s ideology prevented him from seeing that he was destroying the invisible <em>band.</em>

Previous analysis of fragments of dog and dog relative DNA pointed to the Middle East as the geographic origin of the first dogs. A recent study released in <em>Nature Communications</em> is now pointing instead to an origination from East Asia, specifically, southern China.

20 million years before<em> Archaeopteryx</em>, dozens of dinosaurs were found to be light and winged, though not flapping their wings.