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Anthropologists: "You motherfuckers!" (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] rowrowrowyourboat 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Biologists would never say that. At least not any biologist worth their salt.

There's no nurture or nature. It's both.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago

As a biologist,

We can't even get the actions of water bears down.

We have the entire genetic code and brain mapping of a fruit fly, and can get, very slow, good guesses about how they respond to very basic stimulus.

Let's not even get into epigenetics.

I would never downplay the importance or difficulty of psychology.

But I get nothing but kicks on this house of "science" memes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

They would, but like... It's just it's such a broad statement that it's kinda meaningless. As a term it encapsulates basically everything that's going on in your brain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't the experiences of life encoded into the synaptic network of the brain?