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END OF AN ERA

January 21, 2021

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The Last Reality Show Jan. 19th 2021: Sun sets on a bruised America

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Post-Election Morphs

November 13, 2020

Filed under: History, Morphs, Myth

Election 2020 Roots of American Dynamism European Enlightenment∞Stone Age America American Dreaming

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So What's the Book About III

Election Morph

November 7, 2020

Filed under: Belief, Faith, God, Human Nature, Justice

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The World of Laughing Emoji Gifs

November 1, 2020

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A Liberal Theory of Human Nature

Party Views

October 30, 2020

Filed under: Belief, Justice

How parties view each other . . .                              —————– . . . and themselves              

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A Liberal Theory of Human Nature

Trump/Biden: Seriousness and Laughter Styles + unmasking closeup & archival morph

October 10, 2020

Filed under: Morphs

Seriousness and laughter styles of Trump and Biden.

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New Evolutionary Narrative: Collective Teamwork Core of Being Human

August 22, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Group Selection, Human Nature

The known facts of human evolution are interpreted as evidence for theory that, for six million years, our ancestral human species lived within a collective mentality intrinsic to their sole adaptation of coordinating their divided labor, i.e., teamwork.

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Trump and COVID-19

The Evolutionary Basis for Trump’s Hairdo and COVID-19

August 8, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Evolutionary psychology, Sexual Selection

Undoubtedly, many individuals, both male and female, prefer Donald’s bright fluffy bangs to my bald head!

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Evolutionary Psychoanalysis: a primer and case study

August 3, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection, Sexual Selection

Everyone is born with a different configuration of three mentalities, and mental health is a balance between all three.

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Snarling dog

The Origin of Ownership

July 23, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Human Nature, Sexual Selection | 2 Comments

Humans are unique in that both sexes have both motivations simultaneously: all of us both desire beauty and desire to be desired for being, acting, or wearing something beautiful. We Homo sapiens compete with bonobos as the primate species that most desire one another.

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A Liberal Theory of Human Nature

Human Nature: Republican or Democratic?

July 1, 2020

Filed under: Belief, Human Nature, Justice

How much more majesty there is in the vision that the unique aspect of our nature is animated not by tooth and claw, but rather by our tribe’s ancient mission to transform the power of aggression into the bounty of communion.

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The gracefulness that makes us vulnerable to infectious disease

May 25, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolution of human motivation, Human Nature, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Sensitize yourself to the gracefulness in their manner that relentlessly draws all of us together to make us vulnerable to this pestilence.

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Of Mice (rats) and Men

April 16, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection | 2 Comments

In spite of centuries of traps, poisons and fumigations, no pied piper has ever managed to eradicate this most perseverant of pests.

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ORANGE MAN SERIES

April 5, 2020

Filed under: History, Human Nature, Morphs

In February, I awoke from a nightmare with a vision that the country, without anyone realizing it, had taken on the orange coloration produced by DJT’s facial tanning lotion.

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WE WOULD STILL BE CHIMPS WITHOUT EVOLVING TEAMWORK

February 27, 2020

Filed under: Ancient human migration, Human Nature, Justice, Migration

We would still be competing for dominance over our cousins in our African refuges

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What Makes Us Tick?

February 18, 2020

Filed under: Emotional Fossils, Evolution of human motivation, Human Nature | 2 Comments

Leavened by fresh ideas, vivid clinical vignettes, and narratives of the emotional life of our ancient human ancestors

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EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOANALYSIS

New Rx for STIGMA of Mental Illness

February 12, 2020

Filed under: Emotional Fossils, Evolution of human motivation, Mental illness, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

The same experiences of mental illness stigmatized through the ages become ancient beacons illuminating a fresh and uplifting vision of Who We Are.

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Genes

The Genetics of Mental Illness in 3 Paragraphs (plus pics)

February 10, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Evolutionary psychology, Mental illness | 3 Comments

The mentally ill should be honored for paying the price for our extraordinary mental capacities.

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Europe’s Receding Coast

February 6, 2020

Filed under: eccology, History, Migration

CREDITS: (GRAPHIC) A. CUADRA/SCIENCE; EUROPE’S LOST FRONTIERS PROJECT/EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL; (PHOTOS, LEFT TO RIGHT) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES (ROM) LEIDEN (1); MANON BRUININGA Article by Andrew Curry, Science  31 Jan 2020: Vol. 367, Issue 6477, pp. 499-503

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Our Collective Human Instinct for Justice

January 30, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Evolutionary psychology, Justice

Justice is the one virtue indispensable to productive social engagement because justice is the collective instinct naturally selected to allow the benefits of productive social engagement to take root and blossom

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Refuge from bullshit.

END OF AN ERA

January 21, 2021

Filed under: History, Justice, Morphs | No Comments

Post-Election Morphs

November 13, 2020

Filed under: History, Morphs, Myth

So What's the Book About III

Election Morph

November 7, 2020

Filed under: Belief, Faith, God, Human Nature, Justice

The World of Laughing Emoji Gifs

November 1, 2020

Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment

A Liberal Theory of Human Nature

Party Views

October 30, 2020

Filed under: Belief, Justice

A Liberal Theory of Human Nature

Trump/Biden: Seriousness and Laughter Styles + unmasking closeup & archival morph

October 10, 2020

Filed under: Morphs

New Evolutionary Narrative: Collective Teamwork Core of Being Human

August 22, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Group Selection, Human Nature

Trump and COVID-19

The Evolutionary Basis for Trump’s Hairdo and COVID-19

August 8, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Evolutionary psychology, Sexual Selection

Evolutionary Psychoanalysis: a primer and case study

August 3, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection, Sexual Selection

Snarling dog

The Origin of Ownership

July 23, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of human motivation, Human Nature, Sexual Selection | 2 Comments

A Liberal Theory of Human Nature

Human Nature: Republican or Democratic?

July 1, 2020

Filed under: Belief, Human Nature, Justice

The gracefulness that makes us vulnerable to infectious disease

May 25, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolution of human motivation, Human Nature, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Of Mice (rats) and Men

April 16, 2020

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection | 2 Comments

ORANGE MAN SERIES

April 5, 2020

Filed under: History, Human Nature, Morphs

WE WOULD STILL BE CHIMPS WITHOUT EVOLVING TEAMWORK

February 27, 2020

Filed under: Ancient human migration, Human Nature, Justice, Migration

Therapy for Liberals

Schizophrenia’s Enigmatic Roots

July 19, 2014

Filed under: Emotional Fossils, Evolution of Emotion, Popular

It's a Wonderful Life

It’s A Wonderful Life!

December 15, 2015

Filed under: Evolutionary psychology, Monogamy, Popular, Two Mind Hypothesis | 2 Comments

IMPATIENCE

Top Ten Emojis

October 26, 2015

Filed under: Human Nature, Popular | 4 Comments

Sexual selection

Trump and Carson: Archetypes in Human Evolution

November 19, 2015

Filed under: Belief, Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, God, Popular, Sexual Selection | 15 Comments

Mate Selection

Marital Problems

August 22, 2015

Filed under: Evolutionary psychology, Monogamy, Popular, Self domestication

A Liberal Theory of Human Nature - V: Upright Posture, Great Big Brains and Only One Hand Ax

The Hand Ax Mystery: Evidence for peaceful association between groups – an excerpt from the book

April 28, 2012

Filed under: Evolutionary psychology, Myth, Popular | 6 Comments

Ring of Brogdar

A Pilgrimage to the Orkney Islands

April 13, 2015

Filed under: Belief, History, My Favorites, The Ascension of the Human Spirit | 2 Comments

Ian Tattersall

Career Splitter Ian Tattersall Slams Lumpers with a Cheap Shot

July 19, 2015

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection, Language, My Favorites, The Ascension of the Human Spirit

Narrative Intelligence

How We Became So Smart

January 18, 2016

Filed under: Author narrative, cognitive capacities, Evolutionary psychology, Group Selection, Language, My Favorites | 1 Comment

John Ashcroft

Does Liberty Mean Anything Without Justice?

May 30, 2015

Filed under: Emotional Fossils, Evolution of Emotion, Group Selection, History, My Favorites | 2 Comments

Smoke from cabin

We Owe Our Existence to Cold Weather

December 26, 2015

Filed under: Evolution of Emotion, Evolutionary psychology, My Favorites | 2 Comments

Karl Marx and the Alienation of Doctors

February 1, 2017

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