Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way
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Why did we lose a century of Darwinian thinking? You know, I opened the book, my first chapter I talk about biological gravity, which is the pull of evolutionary history. I want to get rid of the label, and I know you still embrace it, social science. Social science is based in the idea that we're different, therefore we have a whole category of understanding that doesn't apply to the rest of life on this planet. Well, every specific
species is different in a way that doesn't apply probably to most of life on this planet. And so we had to get over that hump and we're still not entirely over it, which is why the first chapter has to address it. The fact that we're different isn't a reason that the laws of life on this planet don't apply to us. So I think that was the big impediment, to say nothing of, you know, social Darwinism. You know, the other big mistake that the book addresses is when I first wrote
I advanced what was at the time an outrageous theory with making w the first half of the book deals with making a very novel prediction. What I discovered was that even though the theory, like the book, is about how nurture works within the constraints or the facilitation of evolutionary foundations, people looked at it and they in my field and responded to it as if it's biology is destiny. And that's again because people think genes go from input to output, and there's nothing in between, that context doesn't regulate it, that epigenetics doesn't play a role, and everything else doesn't play a role. Hey everybody, it's Michael Schirmer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show.
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