This was the vision of tropical deforestation held in the popular imagination for many years, but the reality is more complex – and more hopeful.
If the AI that controls other players evolved, it may go through the same steps that made our brain work.
As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.
When the moment arose, everyone was appalled by what he had to say and, as I recall, he quit his degree shortly after.
“Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
All these specific conditions (loud volume, correct support, a vowel that works) must be met in order to sing a high note.
Gossip can actually be thought of not as a character flaw, but as a highly evolved social skill.
The problem isn’t that that is completely unwarranted, it might be, it might not be. The problem is that shielding us from the truth is utterly counter-productive.
Non-additive effects don’t breed true with the same degree of fidelity—in fact these effects bust up the clean transmission of traits from parents to children (to use a sports analogy, it’s a bit like a cornerback in football deflecting the quarterback’s perfect spiral aimed at the receiver).
It will be important to see how many researchers and journals indeed opt to publish null-findings, and whether and how that affects their impact factor and ranking over time.
This misguided reticence is a product of archaic cultural mores that make sex a thing of shame for women, but one of pride for men.
Humans, like all organisms, are the product of evolution. And what evolution ‘cares’ about is genetic propagation: how many genes are passed from one generation to the next.
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.
Sometimes it is better to write from an unconventional perspective; sometimes what is missing from the equation is a greater sense of historical understanding.
Practically no one these days will fight you on the idea that genes and environments interact (GxE), and it is in these interactions, perhaps, that we can discover if parenting truly does impact children.