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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Is Science Unnatural?

You're absolutely right. It is something which it has taken us an awful long time to be able to get the grips on. We have a lot of behaviour that is, you know, we smoke, we mastoba. For the biology is a puzzling and not every behavior even genetic characteristics. Breast cancers, genetics. Gisophrenias, genetic. There's a lot of genetic characteristics that we don't think are particularly beneficial. And so this whole notion that as soon as people do something one on a standard basis, you need to have an evolutionary shenaria to explain it, that that's really not how i look at things. Is that a fair way of lessonin ye

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