Biological determinism is a common #fallacy that implies that biology does and should completely dictate human behavior or the behavior of a certain subset of humans, such as Black people or males. A frequent formulation is along the lines of, "Humans evolved to do this; it's natural." It is considered to be a form of pseudoscience or folk science.

It is a fork of both the naturalistic fallacy (it is true that humans have biological differences, therefore there ought to be a difference in outcome) and the appeal to nature (it's natural for us to behave like this, so it's desirable to behave like this) when used as a normative. When used as a positive it is just factually wrong.

#RationalWIki #biologicaldeterminism #appealtonature #naturalisticfallacy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biological_determinism

Remember guys, #AppealToNature is a #LogicalFallacy for a reason

@falgn0n I just had a read through your article then a look through your site. Whilst I don't personally believe that 'naturalness' is a good basis for action (see #appealToNature,) I like the general feeling of the article and I'm with you on the conclusion.

I'm really into coordinating collective action and whilst I have little faith in the current monetary system I think that currency is not fundamentally broken, check out #duniter. Right now I'm more into direct action through #commons