Category Archives: Social dominance
Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 5: Social Dominance and Power
Rise of the Planet of the Moralists Series1: Introduction2: Chains and Trees 3: Clades and grades4: Predicting traits5: Social dominance and power Thus far we have focused on the differences between human beings and apes, and the ways we should … Continue reading
Rise of the Planet of the Moralists 1: Introduction
Rise of the Planet of the Moralists Series1: Introduction2: Chains and Trees 3: Clades and grades4: Predicting traits5: Social dominance and power This is an extended meditation upon the recent film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). There may be spoilers (first and … Continue reading
Passing thoughts on Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Spoilers. Look away. As usual Hollywood cannot present how scientists actually do their work. But Rise is a much better film than I expected. For a start, the social dominance behaviours of primates was well presented, along with submission behaviours, … Continue reading
Filed under General Science, Pop culture, Social dominance
What should evolutionary psychology comprise?
Recently there have been a number of posts and comments on evolutionary psychology. A new paper in PLoS Biology argues that human brain evolution since the “stone age” (really?) has been rapid and multifaceted. And there are renewed calls for … Continue reading
Did humans lose dominance?
An extensive critical review has just been published online in advance of publication for Biology and Philosophy. The title is “Evolution and the loss of hierarchies: Dubreuil’s Human evolution and the origin of hierarchies: the state of nature” by Catherine … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, Philosophy, Social dominance
Linkraiser
Lots of links today. First, let’s deal with the NYT post by Virginia Heffernan attacking science blogging. There are some fair comments there – I have objected to the religion bashing in many science blogs for a long time, and … Continue reading
Alienus a me puto
I have mentioned Terence’s line Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto before. It is a declaration that all that is human is not foreign to me. But there are aliens, or we suppose on reasonable grounds that there … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Evolution, Philosophy, Social dominance
The man with two links
I’m going to put the poster, if I can find it, for the 80s movies I use as my titles for these links posts, from now on. Stephan Hartmannand Jonah Schupbach critically review Michael Strevens’ book Depth, on scientific explanation. Drake … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Links, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Social dominance, Social evolution
You can't have proper human relationships unless you are a Christian
… according to Archbishop Peter Jensen of Sydney, who seems to think that prior to Jesus nobody ever had a decent human relationship. A secular society is right out, brother. The idea that secularism suggests that people might form relationships … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Religion, Social dominance, Social evolution
