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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
Web edition: July 15, 2011
Print edition: July 30, 2011; Vol.180 #3 (p. 30)
Anecdotes enliven a psychologist’s take on the role of evolution in murderous fantasies, racial prejudice and other unsavory aspects of human nature.
Basic Books, 2011, 238 p., $26.99
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Humanity’s Prologue
At the present expansion phase of the universe towards its all-energy pole, all mass formats, regardless of size and type, are destined to reconvert to energy.
Every mass format, spin array, regardless of size and type, including self-replicable organisms and inanimate formats, either undergoes conversion to energy in any of a host of processes, or postpones its mass-to-energy conversion temporarily, “naturally selected”, by any of a host of processes of taking in energy and/ or mass and constraining the energy temporarily.
For cognizant organisms “natural selection” does not depend solely on physiological adaptation to evolving circumstances. They can manipulate-modify their circumstances, evolve their culture, to gain self-preferred circumstantial conditions for prolonged postponement, survival time.
This is the ever-facing challenge of Earth’s humans and humanity at each and all levels of its organization, everywhere.
Dov Henis
(comments from 22nd century)
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