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When “kindness” is the cruellest response It has become a predictable ritual in contemporary intellectual life that any claim of recent human evolution, or population-level behavioural differentiation, is met with a swift denunciation. Few examples illustrate this reflex better than the reception of Cochran and Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion. The book may be imperfect and […]