Sociobiology

A Bad Week for David Brooks

Mark Engler | Posted 07.30.2011

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Mark Engler

Full disclosure: I find New York Times columnist David Brooks exceedingly annoying, and I have no intention of reading his most recent book, The Socia...

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Nicholas Wade, Wadeian Evolution, and Twisted Knickers

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Agin

The intellectual difficulty is that human social behavior is like an opera. Evolution provides the floorboards, but the arias, the drama, the story are most directly understood in terms of culture and history.

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