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Restless Genes by Daniel Dobbs, National Geographic, January 2013
Here’s a
great article on why humans are exploratory. Note that the author and most of
the scientists cited take a pluralistic, multiple level of analysis approach to
the question. They, the journalist and most of the scientists, eschew a
reductionistic, deterministic, single level approach such that the possession
of a single gene or set of genes explains all. This is an example of good
science and good science writing. It offers a template for evaluating the
explanatory validity of other scientific inquiries and science reporting,
especially in the currently popular and highly reductionistic fields of
neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and genetics.
Crazy Far by Tim Folger, National Geographic, January 2013
