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		<title>Darwin&#8217;s Unfinished Symphony</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/16/darwins-unfinished-symphony/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brain evolution]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Darwin&#8217;s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind is a new book on cultural evolution in humans from a biological perspective. This is an interesting book and a good book, and I recommend it, but I need to add a strong caveat. The author could have made a more compelling argument had he more &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/16/darwins-unfinished-symphony/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin&#8217;s Unfinished Symphony</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Further discussion of the 2016 apparent plethora of celebrity death</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Fisher]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I posted this item asking if it was really true that more celebrities have died this year than usual. That post went viral, so of course, the famous Doug McIntyre (who is, by the way, originally from Minnetonka, Minnesota) asked me to join him on KABC, McIntyre in the Morning, an &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/12/31/further-discussion-of-the-2016-apparent-plethora-of-celebrity-death/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Further discussion of the 2016 apparent plethora of celebrity death</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is 2016 really killing more celebrities than other years did?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 21:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before we address this question, let us recognize that years do not really kill people. That&#8217;s just a poetic way of putting it, in common use. I believe that every year starting around September or October, there is a random spate (spats are generally random, as are small droughts) of celebrity deaths, which lead to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/12/27/is-2016-really-killing-more-celebrities-than-other-years-did/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is 2016 really killing more celebrities than other years did?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Very Smart Birds, Very Smart Bird Book</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/20/very-smart-birds-very-smart-bird-book/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bird Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crows are smart. Anyone who watches them for a while can figure this out. But that is true of a lot of things. Your baby is smart (not really). Your dog is smart (not really). Ants are smart (sort of). It takes a certain degree of objective research, as well as some serious philosophy of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/20/very-smart-birds-very-smart-bird-book/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Very Smart Birds, Very Smart Bird Book</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reductionism in Art and Science</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/16/22931/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the old days, the words &#8220;art&#8221; and &#8220;science&#8221; did not mean the same thing they mean today, at least in academia. Today, unfortunately, they have almost come to mean opposites. You can&#8217;t be doing both at once. Or, at least, that&#8217;s what people who haven&#8217;t thought about it much may think. Art can be &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/16/22931/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Reductionism in Art and Science</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are Pigs Really Like People?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/06/11/are-pigs-really-like-people/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We hear this all the time. Pig physiology is like people physiology. Pigs and humans have the same immune system, same digestive system, get the same diseases. Pigs are smart like people are smart. Pigs are smarter than dogs. And so on. Ask a faunal expert in archaeology or a human paleoanatomist: Pig teeth are &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/06/11/are-pigs-really-like-people/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Are Pigs Really Like People?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How stupid are you? You have no idea!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/09/29/how-stupid-are-you-you-have-no-idea/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stupid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Learn more at this classic post by Don Prothero.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Axon Growth Possible in Central Nervous System</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/05/21/axon-growth-possible-in-central-nervous-system/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 19:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[axon growth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have time to read the original or make much comment on this, but since this topic has come up here before, I thought I&#8217;d pass on the press release from Burke REhabilitation and Research: Burke Medical Research Institute Scientists Show Axon Growth Possible in Central Nervous System White Plains, NY – May 21, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/05/21/axon-growth-possible-in-central-nervous-system/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Axon Growth Possible in Central Nervous System</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Do Men Hunt and Women Shop?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/27/why-do-men-hunt-and-women-shop/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falsehoods II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex differences]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the &#8220;evolutionary psychology&#8221; argument linking behaviors that evolved in our species during the long slog known as The Pleistocene with today&#8217;s behavior in the modern predator-free food-rich world. And, it is a very sound argument. If, by &#8220;sound&#8221; &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/27/why-do-men-hunt-and-women-shop/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why Do Men Hunt and Women Shop?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kurzweil: How to create a mind</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/14/kurzweil-how-to-create-a-mind/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed is Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s latest book. You may know of him as the author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil is a &#8220;futurist&#8221; and has a reputation as being one of the greatest thinkers of our age, as well as being &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/14/kurzweil-how-to-create-a-mind/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Kurzweil: How to create a mind</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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