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This essay explains how the emotion of disgust is approached by evolutionary psychology (EP) and cultural evolution (CE), by analysing biological forms of disgust towards objects, and social forms of disgust towards outgroups. I argue both sub-fields are complementary, and disgust can operate under a universal disease avoidance mechanism suggested by EP, that is capable…
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18/08/2026 When I think about the internet, I am reminded of the profound concept of ‘emergent property’. The emergent property posits that more often than not, simple things evolve to become complex interacting systems, detached from what it’s individually made of. Isn’t that precisely what the internet is? At its barest form it started from…