Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: evolution

6 bookmarks tagged “evolution

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun
My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass…

F's and V's Might Have Appeared After Agriculture - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/farming-hunter-gatherers-labiodentals-linguistics/584950/
If farming helped introduce f’s and v’s 12,000 years ago, it would challenge the principle that humans’ language abilities haven’t significantly changed since we first learned to speak.

No, Evolution Is Not Always Dog-Eat-Dog

nautil.us/issue/46/balance/survival-of-the-friendliest
Survival of the Friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break.