Life and Human Nature.

Human nature theologically and philosophically viewed

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Human nature and race

Most scholars argue that ‘race’ has no relation to human nature. A minority contend that it does. I argue that ‘race’ is a cultural category which can become an embodied part of the human experience. This embodiment helps account for the power of the

Testimony and Human Nature

Evolution and Human Nature

rom an economic perspective on individual decision making, human beings have three key characteristics: preferences, beliefs and rationality. Beliefs are the probabilities with which people think various outcomes will occur, conditional on information that might be available. Preferences are the rankings over the set of gambles that are based on such beliefs over the outcomes. Rationality is th...

The physical nature of life.

Life evolved from the primeval world of physics. Sensory systems inform animals of the natural environment, enabling them to conduct responsively. The discovery of weak, DC bioelectric fields in the vicinity of aquatic organisms and the role they play in guiding sharks and rays to their prey have led to the recognition of fundamental, hitherto less well known, physical aspects of sensory biolog...