HUMAN NATURE: Deeper into the Brain.

National Review | January 24, 2000| | Copyright

WE, Homo sapiens, are about to learn how to alter human nature at roughly the same time that we finally learn for sure what that nature is.

Our ignorance about the underlying truth of human nature has not been for want of trying. Philosophers took up the question as one of the very first that human beings systematically asked about themselves. But philosophers produced answers as various as Aristotle's and Rousseau's. Since the late 1900s, behavioral and social scientists too have tried to understand human nature. But while they have illuminated many useful bits and ...

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