http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/not-a-chimp-2/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/not-a-chimp-2/#comment-171286 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Are We Masters of Our Own Destiny? Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:31:19 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5908#comment-171286 [...] Carter shuddered at either possibility. Ultimately, she said, there is great humility to be gained from the understanding that much of what we take for granted in terms of will and reasoning is actually the invisible and unknowable activity of trillions of molecules in our brains responding to the laws of nature in much the same way as rain-drops falling through the atmosphere. Jeremy Taylor has been a popular science television producer since 1973, and has made a number of programmes informed by evolutionary theory, including two with Richard Dawkins. His latest book is Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes that Make Us Human, out now in paperback. You can read his previous OUPblog post here. [...] [...] Carter shuddered at either possibility. Ultimately, she said, there is great humility to be gained from the understanding that much of what we take for granted in terms of will and reasoning is actually the invisible and unknowable activity of trillions of molecules in our brains responding to the laws of nature in much the same way as rain-drops falling through the atmosphere. Jeremy Taylor has been a popular science television producer since 1973, and has made a number of programmes informed by evolutionary theory, including two with Richard Dawkins. His latest book is Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes that Make Us Human, out now in paperback. You can read his previous OUPblog post here. [...]

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