Not Merely the Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made - Issue 8: Home
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A second excerpt from David Deutsch’s essay, “The Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made,” which appears in full in the Winter 2014 —than we are now. In another thousand years, or even a hundred, we may have changed as much again. If we then look back to try to understand the changes, we shall not find the explanation written in our genes. The fitness “to all environments” that our new adaptation conferred—the universality of the human condition—has disconnected humans from their genetic inheritance. The behavior, lifestyle, abilities, and limitations of all other species are indeed explained entirely through the information in their DNA and the forces of natural selection that created it in their ancestors—that is, through their descent (in Darwin’s sense). But what is important about humans (...)