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Using Evolutionary Science To Change Behaviour - Professor David Sloan Wilson

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Is There a Difference Between Fact and Fiction?

i did a piece of work with one of my grand students, hartburn. It was titled sacred textas cultural genoms. If you take something like the bible, there's an intriguing similarity with a genetic system. And so we can think of a story as a vehicle for imbibing a moral world view. This is something that non fiction does not do. A scientists, we are trying to simply arrive at the facts of the matter. But with fiction, the values are all wrapped up in the story. And this is why fiction is so much easier to embibe. When we're reading a story were it's a different process. And if we like the story, then

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