📔 The Better Angels of Our Nature

They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business.

Dean Simonton has developed several historiometric measures that are reliable and valid (in the psychometrician's technical sense) and politically nonpartisan.

Morality […] is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games.

Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.

But if the natural carnivory of other species counts for something, why not the natural carnivory of Homo sapiens […] ?

The Marine Corps has instituted a martial-arts program in which leathernecks are indoctrinated in a new code of honor, the Ethical Marine Warrior.

Southerners do not outkill northerners in homicides carried out during robberies, they found, only in those sparked by quarrels.

The periaqueductal gray contains circuits that control the sensorimotor components of rage.

This flowchart suggested by the neuroanatomy corresponds fairly well with what psychologists see in the clinic and lab.

The Origin of Species was published in 1859, long after romantic struggleism had become a popular philosophy, and Darwin himself was a thoroughgoing liberal humanist.