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Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

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The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

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The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

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Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

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We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

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I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives.

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But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

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As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: September 18th, 1954

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