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Are you a student activist? Or do you feel school is missing something? Or is someone trying to keep you from learning about racism or sex or evolution or transgender people and you wish you had a way to push back? Many scientists and teachers have been working for decades reboot the public education system. Shouldn’t we use our 21st century knowledge to tell a story of the world for the 21st century? I’m from a tri-racial family of teachers, artists, and scientists. We’ve been connecting id ...
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Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex. Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women don’t consent to having sex with them. If we frame our discussions about sex and consent in terms of our different biology, instincts, and sex motivations, it’s easy to understand what co…
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Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships. That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women consenting to sex. Using the Web of Human Behavior to look at people’s motivations makes women’s and mens feelings surrounding rape easy t…
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Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are. That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women. That means there has always been competition among men for fertile women. That gives women choices of which men to have children with. But that also means men have put a lot of thought over the millennia in…
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Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically. That means we have different instincts for reproducing. Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to people who have qualities we need in a mate. Women are attracted to men who seem like they’d be good fathers, and men are attracted to women who seem like t…
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Men and women reproduce differently. That’s why we have different reproduction organs. That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce. The differences in how men and women think start with the differences in our reproductive instincts. This isn’t a question of whether men are smarter than women, or vice vers…
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Our species originated in Africa. At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents. Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents. Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing …
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Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures. That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species. That gives us valuable clues to the brain structure of our species. At the same time, this paints a vivid picture of the diversity of humanity. Most of these universal…
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People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process. The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life. Recognizing that is a big part of understandi…
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People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process. The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world. What does education psychology tell us about that? Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable. How do th…
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People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life. They think of more ideas in the process. Those ideas build up to a personal history and cultural background of ideas they use to interpret the world and keep making their decisions. What do you think of other people’s worldviews? How similar do they have…
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One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know. The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with. But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours. What does that tell us about how people see the…
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We’re all human, and we’re all unique. How do we see through our unique differences to see our fundamental similarities? The Web of Human Behavior connected the first principles of evolutionary psychology and modern theatre. That shows us a map of human decision making, which we can use to tell our own and other people’s stories, and to understand …
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Modern theatre and evolutionary psychology are founded on parallel discoveries of the same first principles. What’s an easy and effective way to translate between the two? The Web of Human Behavior is a checklist of 20 components of human behavior. It starts with the five fundamental traits of human mental activity, of our instincts for survival an…
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Constantin Stanislavski pioneered modern theatre by discovering a set of artistic principles. They let actors construct the subconscious levels of their characters’ thought processes. Those discoveries are parallels to first principles of evolutionary psychology. We can talk about those artistic principles using ordinary words, and we can see actor…
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Theatre turns human behavior into an art. But people are very perceptive of human behavior. We have highly developed instincts for interpreting why people do the things they do. For actors to produce realistic human behavior onstage is very complicated. Theatre artists struggled with that problem for about 2,400 years. They found many ways to make …
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The development of farming led to further social and technological developments. The increase in food production led to the specialization of labor and population growth. Population growth led to cities and kingdoms. The specialization of labor led to the inventions of metal working and writing. The growth of cities led to plagues. Each of these de…
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Farming was developed first in the Middle East, about 10,000 years ago. It was developed in China 1,000 years later, and in three parts of the Americas several thousands of years later. The environmental conditions of the Middle East at the time made it the most favorable environment in the world for people to develop farming. Several geographical …
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The first people in the world ate wild food that they hunted and gathered. Over the millennia they learned about the lifecycles of plants and animals and used that to increase the food productivity of their environments. In five places on Earth, and maybe four others, people had combinations of environmental factors that led them all the way to ful…
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Genetic evolution for our species is slow, because it depends on parents passing genes down to children generation by generation. Human intelligence evolved over millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations. Our intelligence has evolved from genes to ideas. We evolve mentally much faster now by thinking about ideas and deciding which …
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Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world. They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how to live there. Many people have tried to explain the differences in people’s lifestyles on different continents by explaining how people in different parts of the world could’ve evo…
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Religion played an important role in the evolution of our species. Many people still feel it’s important today. But it can also lead people to make bad decisions. How do religions make people feel like they’re finding what they’re looking for in life? And how can that bring people’s feelings into conflict with each other? How do religions seem to g…
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ACT I Scene 1 Are you on my side? Am I on your side? If we want to be on the same side but we don’t know each other, what should we do? Do we believe in the same things? Can we trust each other? People of different religions have been looking for ways to see themselves as part of the same story for a long time. Archeology and evolutionary psycholog…
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Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture. All over the world people have asked the same questions about life, and have used what they knew about the world to look for answers. Religions tell stories about the origin of the world, what make the world function, morality, and the …
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If we have survival instincts, why do people commit suicide? Why do people sometimes sacrifice their lives? If we have reproductive instincts, why are some people homosexuals? Why do some people not want to have children? These questions seem to some people to disprove evolutionary psychology. But in fact, they give us some of the best pictures of …
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Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today. That means people 50,000 years ago had all of the brain components we do. What sets us apart from people 50,000 years ago is that we’ve had 50,000 years to think of new ideas and inventions. But the instin…
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Intelligence, for any animal species, starts with brains doing five basic things. All of animal behavior is the results of the interaction of those five mental functions. Everything people think, feel, and do begins with the same five mental functions. The next step in understanding human psychology is to look at how our instincts for survival and …
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Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence. The next step is evolutionary psychology. That means understanding how the evolution of our intelligence affects how we think and feel now. That starts with our looking at three underlying themes in eve…
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Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa. Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food. That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion. ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a …
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How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today? If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information. But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story. Now you’re looking at how fe…
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There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today. We can fill in that part of the story by talking about the meanings of vocabulary words from biology. Each of those words refers to a concept in biology that tells a story about some part of evolution. Ea…
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Genes are molecules. Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes. For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical reaction that could evolve. How did that happen? How did the evolution of genes lead to cells? To chromosomes? To multicellular life forms? The evolution of genes eventually cre…
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The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy. Some of it condensed into matter. That set the universe in motion. It led to the formation of atoms. It also led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets. Physics is the study of matter and energy. Atomic physics leads directly into chemistry. Electrons are attracted to the nuclei of atoms. What …
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Math is the metaphysics of science. Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world. To tell a mathematical story of the world that people can grow up with, we need to start with games we can show to preschoolers to help them visualize the fundamental mathematical patterns in the world. As they get older they can …
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Science is a philosophy. The metaphysics are math. The epistemology is the five step process of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate. Those lead to hypotheses and theories. But we could just as easily call these the underlying themes in the story of the world. A scientific story of the world doesn’t turn the whol…
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Teachers learn eight principles of learning in the course of their certification training, which show us different ways of making information memorable. If you compare how religious leaders use them to make their religious stories memorable to how teachers use them in public school, you can see a number of ways that religious fundamentalists are co…
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Archeology shows us a lot about the origin of religion. History and current events tell us a lot about where religions went from there. Different religions have different stories about the world. But all of those stories are answers to the same questions people everywhere ask about life. Religions bring people together into communities through shar…
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Science is the systematic search for reliable information. Religions are stories about the world that assume events have supernatural origins, but that bring believers together. Those two seem incompatible at first. But we can see common themes among them if we look at them both as philosophies. ACT I Scene 1 (114 bpm) We got Christians in the hous…
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People think and learn in terms of stories. We think about how things happen in terms of a beginning, a middle, and an end. All your classes in school tell stories. A functional society depends on its members agreeing on a story of how the world works, because that that’s how they make plans for how they can work together. Science and history class…
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Greta Thunberg’s school strike has spread all over the world. Black Lives Matter and most other movements for inclusion have student branches. Student activists, and changes to the education system, are always a big part of every political movement. Many scientists and educators have been finding ways to update the education system to the 21st cent…
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