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By: D-Notice

D-Notice — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:30:22 +0000

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By: Maia

Maia — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:08:36 +0000

Boy, you should visit the mexican newspaper Reforma website’s science section one of these days. I’ve read there that a single gene is the culprit for HIV’s infections, that geckos and salamanders are the same animal, and that they’ve recently discovered the gene for being nice persons.

By: Jef

Jef — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:53:24 +0000

What’s depressing is that this isn’t terribly surprising. I keep hearing all the time about human nature but it’s really pseudo-scientific cultural observations and pop-psychology. I heard a couple of times in conversations people saying that it’s human nature to keep ‘pushing the limit’ because most drivers exceed the speed limit, but that can be explained as a stimulus response to the way it’s policed, as well as the social anxiety of where the limits are set and several other things that have NOTHING TO DO WITH EVOLUTION OR HUMAN NATURE.

You’d think magazines and newspapers would have anthropologists/sociologists on staff considering how much of what get written could benefit from their work. I suppose the ‘hard’ scientists can share in this frustration, hence this blog posting.

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