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And thinking...beyond?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 2:54pm.

And how might learning-and-thinking about both biological and literary evolution help us think about...

other things? From today's NYTimes (for instance) comes "Why Darwinism Isn't Depressing":

"Transcending our arbitrary narrowness of our empathy [i.e., loving our own kids more than others...] isn't guaranteed by nature. (Why do you think they call it transcendence?) But nature has given us the tools...the brains to figure out how evolution works, and thus to see that the narrowness is arbitrary. So evolution has led to something outside itself...."

Think so?

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