The Appearance of Design My book touches on many aspects of human nature.  However, I regard the nature/nurture dichotomy as false.  Nature refers to the end products of development and nurture to how they got there.  The innate/learned, robust/plastic, hard-wired/soft-wired, and genetic/environmental dichotomies all incorrectly

The Importance of Adaptation From an early stage in its life each individual has to deal with many challenges.  When young its ecology may be very different from that of the adult, in which case it may have special adaptations to deal with those conditions. Like a caterpillar before metamorphosing

A Perspective on Humans My central academic interests have been with the development and evolution of behaviour and I have long been concerned with the relevance of my work to humans. The notion of genetic determination, which was so firmly embedded in evolutionary theory, has seriously interfered with attempts to