On 11/30/2010 11:27 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > On 11/30/2010 4:24 PM, Jay Hanson wrote: >> Our current crisis arises from our innate drive for social status. >> "Status" is our most-powerful, culturally-determined (not physical >> like sex) innate drive. People will even kill their own children >> for status (e.g., honor killing). > Our innate drive? Where is that exactly? The hypothalamus?
Brain scientists (e.g., cognitive neuroscience) concern themselves with mapping the various parts of the brain, but not evolutionary psychologists (as far as I know) do not. Here is some more information on the discipline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology I do not know how many universities teach it, the basics of evolutionary psychology can be self-taught (if you aren't too old). Jay _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
