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is "culture" distinct from "nature"?
How much of our culture is determined by our biology? How much of our biology is determined by our culture? This second question may seem like a confusion or a categorical mistake, but I suggest it is possible - even very plausible - that at least brain structures are affected by cultural factors. For instance: musicians' brains are physically ...
Posted to Human Nature by adva on December 7, 2008
What's Bringing Down the American Male?
Why are males graduating at a lower rate from high school? Why are fewer males attending university? Why are homicide and suicide rates for males, ecspecially African American males, between 15- 27 so high and seemingly increasing? Is there a crop of males who are effectively 'throw aways', like the young males of the Mormon fundamentalist ...
Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on June 3, 2008
Would You Deny A Man's Need to Protect Women?
Perhaps this is a most appropriate forum to raise my disliked topic given this forum's Highbrow title and my viewpoint often condescendingly framed as being Lowbrow. In any case, while pop editorialists ponder whether America needs men to protect the women in their lives, the call of human nature goes unabaded in every new generation. It is an ...
Posted to The Highbrow by Usama2 on November 20, 2007