Seven Survival Senses: Evolutionary Training Makes Discerning Differences More Natural Than Spotting Similarities

World Futures 77 (3):222-244 (2021)
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This article discusses preliminary results from two experiments and puts forth the notion that the development of sensory systems might be more geared toward discerning differences rather than for...

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