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Culture naturally

By razib on September 30, 2006.

Back in August AlphaPsy had series of posts on 'naturalism' in the context of culture. Check them out! (links below) I strongly believe it is important to discuss human affairs with a multi-disciplinary lens, too often the public discourse is presupposed on naive psychology, while elite models tend to fixate on one dimension (e.g., the 'rational actor,' a pet historical paradigm, etc.).

A Primer on Evolution

A Primer on Cognition

A Primer on Culture

A Primer on Darwinian Psychiatry

A Primer on Religion

A Primer on Coevolutions and Domestications

A Primer on Technology

A Primer on Meta-Evolution

A Primer on Theory of Mind

A Primer on the Psychology of Politics

A Primer on Cognitive Arts

A Primer on Science and Folk Science

A Primer on Racialist Prejudices

A Primer on Mirror-Neurons

My posting of the links are not an edorsement of the totality of the arguments in each post, rather, they are an accurate reflection of what I believe is the right direction to go in the human sciences.

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This truism is always worth recalling: there are no biologically defined human groups. Homo Sapiens is peculiar in this respect: it is the only species of its kind.

peculiar indeed.

By Rikurzhen (not verified) on 30 Sep 2006 #permalink