- How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race | Science | The Observer: "The discovery of the bones of tiny primitive people on an Indonesian island six years ago stunned scientists. Now, further research suggests that the little apemen, not Homo erectus, were the first to leave Africa and colonise other parts of the world, reports Robin McKie"
- Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values that are novel in human evolution| Physorg.com: "More intelligent people are significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds."
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- A comforting myth | Ophelia Benson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Suffering is just a fact, a consequence of being organisms with nerves and brains. It doesn't do us any good" e "The idea that hardship improves us looks like a rationalisation of an old superstitious fear that too much prosperity will trigger the opposite. The gods are jealous, and if we don't have any suffering, they'll see that we get some – and they always overdo it, the bastards, so it's much better if we do it to ourselves first so that they don't come along and wallop us. It's a good bargain if it works: I give up chocolate for a month and the gods don't drop an asteroid on my head."
- 'New Study Links Religion to Immoral Behavior' by MSNBC - ogjimkenobi - YouTube - RichardDawkins.net: Hum, poderá ser o caso, mais uma vez, de correlação não implicar, de modo necessário, causalidade?
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