PhD (Cand.) Evolutionary Geneticist | Evolutionary Developmental Biology | Biostatistics, Human Behaviour and Adaptation | Intersection of Biology and Culture.
Dec 9, 2025 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
🧵The Religion No One Practices: How Believers Edit Their Own Scriptures🧵
Religious people routinely assert that they “believe” their scriptures. Yet if you observe actual human behaviour with even minimal anthropological sobriety, you discover an uncomfortable truth.
No believer lives in sustained, literal alignment with their sacred texts. The gap between professed belief and enacted behaviour is not a minor inconsistency, it is the entire structure.
Oct 26, 2025 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Empathy is a biased algorithm 🧵
Empathy is often romanticised as the pinnacle of moral development. But in evolutionary terms, it is a bounded adaptation - an affective mechanism fine-tuned to stabilise cooperation within coalitions, not to promote indiscriminate benevolence.
From an adaptive standpoint, empathy functions as an in-group reinforcement system. Its evolutionary utility lies in detecting distress or need in individuals whose welfare reciprocally benefits one’s own genetic or cultural fitness.
Oct 19, 2025 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Looking at Psychopathology
Psychopathy exists, but probably not as psychiatry traditionally defines it. It is not delusion, psychosis, or even disorder in the conventional sense. Rather, it is a stable neurodevelopmental variant within the human behavioural spectrum.
It is a phenotype characterised by shallow affect, blunted empathy, and instrumental cognition uncoupled from emotional regulation. To label it “madness” is simply a misunderstanding. To call it “evil” is moral projection.
