Category: ROBA
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2025 Research Plan – The Mythology of Violence
As mentioned in the last post, my 2025 reading list is mostly going to be mythology. Challenge: If liberals are right and violence is “learned” (as per Montagu and the Seville Statement) then there should be myths of the origins of the learning of this violence. If conservatives are right and violence gradually evolved from…
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The Myth of the Weaponized Ape
With my book If These Fists Could Talk coming out this month, I’m starting research for my next book on the mythology of violence. We have a story we tell in our science: that as primates left the jungles of Africa, they underwent the trials of the environment, which evolved their component parts – brains,…