Steve Stewart-Williams
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Interesting: Genes predict people's educational outcomes better if they were raised by biological parents than adopted. That's because biological parents share many of the same genes, and genes help shape
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THREAD: Sex Differences in AggressionAccording to a recent New York Times piece, boys are more violent than girls – but their tendency to violence isn't innate. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/sunday/boys-men-violence.htmlCertainly, so
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Natural selection builds mechanisms that human engineers still struggle to match. Exhibit A: The neural structures underpinning head stabilization in this hawk. (Head stabilization has the same function as image
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Classic demonstration of change blindness. Around 50% of people didn't notice when the person they were talking to was replaced by someone else. (!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSxSQsspiQ Another example of change blindness.
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