American - Scientist | 1942 -
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
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The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
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Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
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I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
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I much prefer the modern world.
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Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
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Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
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Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
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Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
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