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Kenneth R. Miller is an American cell biologist and professor at Brown University.
Known for: The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
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The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
In this book, biologist Kenneth R. Miller explores how evolution shaped the human mind, consciousness, and sense of free will. He argues that rather than diminishing humanity, evolutionary science reveals the natural origins of our creativity, morality, and rationality. Drawing on biology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Miller presents a defense of human uniqueness grounded in science.
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Evolutionary Foundations
To understand where human consciousness and reason come from, we must first go back to the foundation of evolutionary theory itself. Darwin’s idea of natural selection remains one of the most potent intellectual revolutions in history. It showed that complexity is not imposed from above but arises t...
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Human Uniqueness
We are part of nature, yet we transcend it in certain extraordinary ways. Our powers of symbolic representation, language, and moral judgment stand at an intersection where biology meets abstraction. The challenge is to understand how such capacities could evolve without invoking mysticism. When we...
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About Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller is an American cell biologist and professor at Brown University. He is known for his work on evolution and for advocating the compatibility of science and faith. Miller has authored several acclaimed books on evolution and human nature.
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