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Blogging's virture (and partisanship's vice) given the value of "ideas having sex"

By Douglas A. Berman

This terrific piece in the Wall Street Journal, which is headlined "Humans: Why They Triumphed," provides an enjoyable and stimulating read. The piece is full of fascinating ideas about human progress and intellectual evolution, while also coining my latest favorite term "ideas having sex."  Here are snippets from the start and end of the piece that showcase its key ideas: Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years ? the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly progressing technologies. Once "progress" started to produce new tools, different ways of life and burgeoning populations, it accelerated all over the world, culminating in agriculture, cities, literacy and all the rest...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 22, 2010 (boomark / email).