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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by sshine on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:49AM (#19043650)
His theory of evolution has at least become mainstream in parts of the world.
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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by Filligree on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:24AM (#19044021)
Are you sure you aren't mistaking him for Darwin?
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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by gumby on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:19AM (#19045311)
I assume sshine was talking about Freud's conjectures on evolutionary biology and the evolutionary conservatism of archaic structures in the brain.

Much of that work is on its surface unremarkable today, though not at the time. But as it wasn't really central to his most influential work, it also hasn't been (IMHO) particularly influential

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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by ganzuul on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:55AM (#19045611)
It isn't a novel idea of Darwin's: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thou...
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Re:A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves by gnulinux on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:48AM (#19046148)
It really is. In modern context "evolution" doesn't mean "any type of evolution e.g. Lamarckian evolution, evolution from natural selection or Pokemon evolution from leveling up". It really just means "evolution from natural selection" which is not only a novel idea proposed by Darwin, but Darwin also pioneered to research on this idea (i.e. going around the world and collecting specimens that could potentially falsify his hypothesis but instead support it).

That Plato thought your mind transfers from your previous souls and this is called "evolution" is simply an accident of language.

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