Human Nature in Minds and Cultures

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What is unique about humans? And what is universal among human beings? Is human nature the product of a specific genome, or is it shaped by human cultures? Does it make sense to think of nature as the opposite of nurture? We will consider aspects of human nature in domains such as family and gender, political coalitions, religious extremism, ethnic identity and morality, from the viewpoints of cultural anthropology, philosophy, evolutionary biology and psychology.