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natural history, intuitive, 220
Natural History of Rape, A (Thornhill and Palmer), viii, 161, 359-69 naturalistic fallacy, 150, 162-63, 164
natural selection, 28, 50, 51-52, 54, 55, 83, 101, 142, 231, 249 Dawkins on, 318-19
sex ratios and, 343
see also evolution
Navajo language, 37
Nazism, 153-58, 180-81, 272-73
Neel, James, 115-19
Neill A. S. , 222
neologisms, 211-13
nepotism, 245-46, 253, 294
Nesse, Randolph, 264
neural development, 83-100, 227, 386-87, 396-97 neural networks, 21, 42, 78-83, 92
neural plasticity, 44-45, 74, 83-100, 384-87
brain damage and, 98-100
of cortex vs. subcortical structures, 89
developmental biology and, 90-100, 386-87, 396-97 primary sensory cortex and, 87-91, 93-94
neuroscience, 111, 131, 341-42, 386-87 cognitive, 41-45
commercial applications of, 87
and Ghost in the Machine, 42, 44, 129 mind-matter divide and, 41-45
see also brain Newell, Alan, 105
New Formalism, 417
New Know-Nothings, The: The Political Foes of the Scientific Study of Human Nature (Hunt), 128 Newman, Barnett, 413
Newton, Huey, 111 {503}
Newton, Sir Isaac, 30
New Yorker, 46, 116, 179
New York Review of Books, 109, 262
New York Times, 86, 179, 339, 349, 414
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 131, 139, 207
nihilism, 269
religion concerns about, 186-90
secular concerns about, 190-94 Nim Chimpsky, 61
1984 (Orwell), 425-26
Nisbett, Richard, 327, 328
Nixon, Richard M. , 180, 236, 298
Noble Savage, 6, 26-27, 31, 118, 119, 162, 261, 293, 381, 421
communalism and, 255
evolution and, 55-56
feminism and, 339
neuroscience and, 44
radical science defense of, 124-26, 134 rape and, 362
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? ? nonrival goods, 238
Non Sequitur (comic strip), 179
Not in Our Genes (Kamin), 112, 126
Nozick, Robert, 149, 151
nuclear weapons, 324, 325
number sense, 192, 209-10, 220, 223
Nurture Assumption, The (Harris), viii, 381, 392 Nussbaum, Martha, 172
Oakshott, Michael, 290
Ofili, Chris, 414
Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 309 olfactory (smell) system, 93
Onion, The, 414, 425
orangutans, 367
Ortega y Gasset, Jose 24, 308 Orwell, George, 321, 425-28
Ozick, Cynthia, 343
Paddock, Paul, 236-37
Paddock, William, 236-37
Paglia, Camille, 342, 343, 369-70
Paine, Thomas, 288
Painted Word, The, 414
paleontology, 55, 306
Palmer, Craig, viii, 161, 176, 359-69
Papert, Seymour, 80
Parallel Distributed Processing (Rumelhart, McClelland et al. ), 21 parenting, viii, ix, x, 164-65, 171-72, 378-99
behavioral genetics and, 378-87 conflicts in, 249-51
individualized, 387-90
sex differences in, 252-54, 345, 350, 357 stepparenting, 164-65
Parsons, Talcott, 285, 286 Pascal, Blaise, 419 Passmore, John, 159 Pasteur, Louis, 154
Patai, Daphne, 342
Paul, Elizabeth, 253
peers, 390-92, 395-96, 399 Percy, Walker, 209 perfectability, 27, 159-73 Perfect Storm, The (Junger), 258 Perry, Bruce, 171
personality, 46-51, 135, 373
socialization vs.
, 395
see also traits Petitto, Laura, 61, 95 phantom limbs, 98
philosophy, 5-13, 18, 22, 23, 33, 34-35, 38-39, 64-65, 69-70, 101, 137-39, 145-48, 150-52, 159, 162, 164, 166-68, 169-70, 172, 174-78, 179-85, 187-89, 192-93, 207, 216, 227-29, 239-40, 274-75, 279-80, 287-88, 296-98, 318-32, 335-36, 337-38 Philosophy and Literature, 415
physical fallacy, 234
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? ? ? intuitive, 220, 223, 239
Picasso, Pablo, 409
Pindar, 287
Piss Christ (Serrano), 414
Plato, 192, 284, 285 Plomin, Robert, 381 Pocahontas, 12 {504}
politics, 283-305
see also convervatism; liberalism; radical science movement
Pollack, William, 309
Pol Pot, 158
Pope, Alexander, 138, 373
Popper, Karl, 151, 287
population, 236-37
Population Bomb, The (Ehrlich), 237
Posner, Richard, 287
postmodernism, 198, 202, 208, 213, 214, 216, 285, 411-17, 426-27
reaction against, 416-17
Postrel, Virginia, 342
Poussaint, Alvin, 107
Pratto, Felicia, 342
prejudice, 141, 145-49, 201-2, 204-7, 212-13, 214, 217, 337-39, 341, 351, 354, 355 Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The (Goffman), 264
price controls, 234
Principia Ethica (Moore), 150
Prisoner's Dilemma, 334-35 probability, sense of, 220, 231-33 Proctor, Robert, 154-55
Pryor, Richard, 262-63, 425
psychiatry, 181, 184
psychoanalysis, 40
see also Freud, Sigmund
psychology, 6, 18-19, 20, 22, 24, 27-28, 69, 169, 181, 183, 184, 191, 214, 226, 233, 249, 302, 422-23
arts and, 404-9, 412, 417
of categories, 201-7
developmental, 101, 383-90
emotions studied in, 39-40, 107-8, 221, 243, 255, 271-75 genetics and, 50
of imagery, 215-16, 236, 406, 417
neuroscience and, 45
of perception, 199-201, 214-15, 405, 417
social, 63, 204-5, 233-34, 241, 245, 247, 255, 256-58, 264-66, 270-75, 277-79, 281-82, 294, 303-4, 321, 327-28 stereotypes and, 201-2
see also associationism; behavioral genetics; behaviorism; emotions; evolutionary psychology; memory; number sense; personality; theory of mind
psychopathy, 51, 125, 259-63, 315
Public Enemy, 329
public goods, 256-58, 294 Public Opinion (Lippmann), 201 punishment, 180-85
Putnam, Hilary, 70, 149 Pygmalion effect, 206
Pylyshyn, Zenon, 80
quantum mechanics, 239 Quartz, Stephen, 84
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