6/6/2023 0 Comments Eo wilson on human nature![]() Anyone who can is not, although he may still have flaws in perspective or morality relating to race. Anyone who can’t declare that, after reviewing the actual science, is literally a racist. intelligence or altruistic impulses) - because it doesn’t. It’s reasonable to look at people with huge bodies of work and recognize that they were working things out and would make mistakes - and it’s good enough for me if a researcher clarifies to definitively say that he does not believe race determines personal and moral characteristics of individuals (e.g. The field of evolutionary biology, while very interesting and likely able to bring us some smart insights, needs to distinguish itself very carefully from that old heresy and work to make sure Cliffs Notes versions of EB don’t fall back into those mistakes and bad habits. People think anything with “Darwinism” in the name is good. We have moved into an era where people don’t understand that “Social Darwinism” is a bad thing - a dramatically ignorant misreading of the idea of natural selection that was used to justify racism. ![]()
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