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Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.
The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
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.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.
So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
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