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Books of the Week

	Off With Their Heads
	Category: World History
	Author: Martin Oliver

	The God Delusion
	Category: Thinkers Essays
	Author: Richard Dawkins

	The Minds Eye
	Category: Brain Science
	Author: Oliver Sacks

Latest Thoughtpiece

March 2009 Thoughtpiece

In this latest Thoughtpiece, we explore some maladaptive evolutionary traits that present themselves in our everyday lives. To evolutionists, this is a well known problem. Our societies are evolving at a far more rapid pace than our brains and the result is that solving modern problems remains heavily dependent on our primitive machinery.

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