Antinomy/biology

fascinating hypothesis that deserves to be researched

Have you ever met a person who thinks a lot like you do but differently enough that he or she serves as a scary funhouse mirror? Sort of like meeting an extremist who has your core beliefs? That is how I felt when I found this collection of excerpts from the heavy Usenet poster The Danimal. He has been posting on Usenet for at least fifteen years and has submitted thousand of articles. He writes with precision, humor, harshness, and elegance about sociobiology, the scientific method, futurism, the battle between the sexes, empiricism, logical positivism, education, psychometrics, and more. I find him frightening because he starts with many of my premises but ends up at different places than I do, and I think he probably is smarter than I am.

The Personal Genome Project--editorial

This is purportedly a review of the second volume of the collected papers of W. D. Hamilton, a great scientist who should be better known. In reality, the article is primarily a portrait of the man himself. Hamilton is the initial source of the ideas for which E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins are more famous.

"The question of whether humans are even capable of response to pheromones looks increasingly to have the answer of "Yes". This of course creates all sorts of possibilities for the future. But it also brings up some interesting issues about individual rights and free will."