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Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

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But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

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But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

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