Two articles on human evolution
Two interesting articles in the December 2012 issue of Current Anthropology :
- Michael Tomasello, Alicia P. Melis, Claudio Tennie, Emily Wyman, and Esther Herrmann: “Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis.”
- John Gowlett, Clive Gamble, and Robin ...
Why do mathematicians always agree?
Science is a lively social activity, with many claims being lively debated. What about mathematics? The cliché about mathematicians being poor at managing social relations is quite strong and widespread. One of the most famous joke on the topic goes like this:
Question: How can you spot an ...
Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
If anyone remembers anything from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (apart from the number of distinct operations required to make a pin, which greatly impressed me at the time), it is that famous sentence that describes human motives for trade:
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the ...