Chapter 10
Coherence and the bounds of diversity
Article outline
- 10.1Preface
- 10.2Diversity and invariance in evolutionary biology
- 10.2.1The Darwinian model
- 10.2.2Post-Darwinian evolutionary biology
- 10.2.2.1Variation
- 10.2.2.2Invariance
- 10.2.2.3Selection
- 10.3The durability of an old social adaptation
- 10.3.1Preliminaries
- 10.3.2Information and communication in the Society of Intimates
- 10.3.2.1Types of mental representation
- 10.3.2.2Evolved communication
- 10.4The Society of Strangers
- 10.5Human nature
- 10.5.1Recapitulation
- 10.5.2Empathy, altruism and cooperation
- 10.6The conundrum of diversity and the mirage of multi-culturalism
- 10.6.1Preamble
- 10.6.2The wages of excess diversity
- 10.6.3Color is, well, visible
- 10.6.4Tale of two cultures
- 10.6.5Gender, again
- 10.7Is there a way out?
- 10.7.1Back to nature-vs.-artifice
- 10.7.2The religious option
- 10.7.3The state’s option
- 10.7.4The neuro-scientist’s option
- 10.7.5Hyper-sociality or A.I.?
- 10.8Final note
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Acknowledgements
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Notes