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Latte Nation

by Jacob Heilbrunn

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Wilson’s orthodox Darwinian sociobiology made countless enemies in academia. Centrist anthropologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides accordingly relaunched sociobiology under the neutral name of “evolutionary psychology.” Pronouncing themselves the truest True Believers in equality, Tooby and Cosmides portrayed human nature as almost monolithically uniform and proclaimed that evolutionary psychology should study only human similarities.

Neo-Darwinian science is corroborating and extending much of the conservative worldview.

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