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Is selfness or Identity commonly appreciated to be the linchpin behavioral/psychological trait of our species?

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Is selfness or Identity commonly appreciated to be the linchpin behavioral/psychological trait of our species?

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It doesn’t seem to be so. Indeed, a seminal work in evolutionary psychology has no reference to self or identity as an evolved adaptive event. A couple more quick observations on this subject. Any week of the year it is easy to pick up a journal or other publication and find casual assumptions or explanations about human behavior that are more or less silly. Often this is because of an agenda or a constituency. Sometimes it is because a writer is simply not thinking or has a goal or deadline. But probably the most important impediment to open contemplation and reasoning lies in the same barriers that inhibited the self-evident solution to natural selection 150 years ago. In the earlier case, the nascent concept came immediately into conflict with the general and specific tenants of the prevailing and reactionary religious faiths and institutions in a religious time. In the current environment, inspirational miscarriage similarly comes from a familiar virulence of reactions to ideas tha

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