The leading theory in the social sciences is cultural determinism. Yet, it lacks plausibility as a scientific theory. It is often untestable. When tested, it frequently fails. Such failures are widely ...

It’s never a good time for another bout of genetic determinism, but it’s hard to imagine a worse one than this. Social inequality gapes, exacerbated by climate change, driving hostility towards ...

The familiar expression “hindsight is always 20/20” affirms that looking back on a behavior enables you to understand what previously you weren't cognizant of. And that regardless of whether you could ...

READERS new to Feedback may be unaware of our attempts over the years to expand humanity’s understanding of nominative determinism – the phenomenon, first identified in this column, in which people’s ...

Have you ever wondered why you tend to act differently depending on the situation? Or why your personality seems to shift depending on who you're with and what you're doing? Some psychologists suggest ...

When the same AI system that flawlessly analyzed financial documents yesterday fabricates contract clauses today, we face more than a technical glitch. We confront the fundamental barrier preventing ...

Abounded response to events is the key to defining a hard real-time system. Real-time systems require determinism to ensure predictable behavior. Without determinism, systems can't be called real-time ...

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These experimental studies support the ecological theory of adaptive radiation, which postulates that diversification is often driven by the combination of ecological opportunity and intraspecific ...