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...We are long overdue for an update to the empirical scientific evidence
that, despite our racial differences, demonstrates humankind’s overarching
shared foundations as biological, cultural, and social beings. Awareness
of the fascinating research unfolding in the arena of nature–nurture and the
human condition promises to be a step in that direction.
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― Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
― Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
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The point of the prey being paralysed rather than killed, by the way, is that they don't decay but are eaten alive and are therefore fresh. It was macabre habit, in the related Ichneumon wasp, that provoked Darwin to write: 'I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent god would have designedly created the Ich-neumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars...' He might as well have used the example of a french chef boiling lobsters al
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― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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