{"id":374,"date":"2021-11-08T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2021-11-15T06:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:48:25","slug":"tc-paper-on-the-universality-of-human-nature-and-the-uniqueness-of-the-individual-the-role-of-genetics-and-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/tc-paper-on-the-universality-of-human-nature-and-the-uniqueness-of-the-individual-the-role-of-genetics-and-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"TC paper - On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cep.ucsb.edu\/papers\/jpersonality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cep.ucsb.edu\/publist.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">All Tooby and Cosmides publications<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T&amp;C make the case that there is likely to be a universal human nature, with \"a species-typical collection of complex psychological adaptations,\" despite the considerable genetic variation in the human population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their reasoning is that any complex adaptation requires many genes, and genes get shuffled so thoroughly in a population that there is no way a complex adaptation could reliably appear, unless the different alleles produce only superficial differences between people, and the broad functions built by the genes are universal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. All Tooby and Cosmides publications T&amp;C make the case that there is likely to be a universal human nature, with &#8220;a species-typical collection of complex psychological adaptations,&#8221; despite the considerable genetic variation in the human population. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robotinyou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}