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Genes
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Go far enough back and all of humankind are cousins. I would like to think, for instance, that somewhere in my genes are the cave painters of Lascaux or the painters of the equally ancient Chinese or African caves and cliffs. To make it universal we must go back beyond the last ice age or we will cut off our cousinship with America and Australia. I can only hope that no human or protohuman genes have been totally lost.
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― Early in Orcadia
― Early in Orcadia
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People don’t adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. People whose genes gave them brains that get a special pleasure from novelty, variety, and diversity, while simultaneously being less sensitive to signs of threat, are predisposed (but not predestined) to become liberals. They tend to develop certain “characteristic adaptations” and “life narratives” that make them resonate—unconsciously and intuitively—with the grand narratives told by political move
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― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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