2865 IQ: Costs and Benefits - Saturday Call In Show December 13th, 2014

Why can't other value systems - like God - achieve the same outcomes as Universally Preferable Behavior? You site the work of Charles Murray, Steven Pinker, and Nicholas Wade often when analyzing various topics and I have read books by all three authors - most recently reading "A Troublesome Inheritance" by Nicholas Wade. If what Nicholas Wade proposes in his book is indeed, biologically speaking, the actual narrative of our ancestral past, then how is this incompatible with the more "anthropological" approaches to history, such as Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel? Why can't these two be compatible? Also, a very important question regarding Wade's book, why do you think he titled it "A Troublesome Inheritance?" "Troublesome" for who? Why does it always seem like people with issues are drawn to me for consolation - and then leave me when they don't need me anymore?