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* Among Charles Darwin's lasting legacies is our knowledge that the human mind evolved by some adaptive process.
* A major, widely discussed branch of evolutionary psychology - Pop EP - holds that the human brain has many specialized mechanisms that evolved to solve the adaptive problems of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
* The author and several other scholars suggest that some assumptions of Pop EP are flawed: that we can know the psychology of our Stone Age ancestors, that we can thereby figure out how distinctively human traits evolved, that our minds have not evolved much since the Stone Age, and that standard psychological questionnaires yield clear evidence of the adaptations.
Comment: Several cables were cut in January 08, speculations as to the reasons for that 'rare' event included:
A subtle message to Iran, an example of how their communications can be affected by outside forces?
Maybe this is a prelude to an attack, or perhaps a test run for a future one?
The long-awaited Iranian Oil Bourse, a place for trading oil, petrochemicals and gas in various non-dollar currencies, was about to be opened.
Conspiracy theories and cut InterTube cables. He who controls information flow, controls pretty much everything. If the US did manage to tap into the entire middle east's net connections with these "accidents", our lives have just gotten much more complex.