Russell Tuttle on Human Evolution: A Distinct Species

For the majority of human history, people lived in hunter-gatherer bands where they never met anyone of another race. The nearest such person was likely to be hundreds or thousands of miles away. It's only extremely recently, in evolutionary terms, that humans have become mobile enough to encounter other races. Why, then, should our brains have evolved to have such automatic, inevitable, aversive processing of people of other races when such encounters have played virtually no role in how humans evolved? The answer is, they haven't. The aversive processing is neither automatic nor inevitable.

Are humans hard-wired for racial prejudice?

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Paspēlēties & izzināt.

Richard Dawkins & Steven Rose par gēniem, vidi un evolūciju.

A scientist and non-believer, de Waal isn't saying here that religion is required for human morality, only that the two have been entwined throughout human history. Since I have wearied of the Richard Dawkins school of religion-bashing, in which belief is equated with dim-wittedness, I can only applaud de Waal's approach, as when he writes, "The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms ... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma."

- Frans de Waal's Bottom-Up Morality: We're Not Good Because Of God

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