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Stories From the Ground. 
Dear Tristan,
You are doing a great job, thank you so much for the invaluable content you publish on evolutionary psychology – a highly underrated topic people talk about. I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief of one of the largest popular science websites in Turkey called “Tree of Evolution”, and we generate content in various fields in science, mainly on evolutionary biology but in other topics as well. We loved your post titled “What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology?” on Quillette and one of our translators wanted to publish it in Turkish. Would you mind it if we translated it and posted it on evrimagaci.org? More than 90% of our content is original, but we try to ask and get permission of the authors before we translate for that smaller 10%. We believe it will contribute to the Turkish-speaking audience a lot. Also, obviously, we will use your name as the author and give all the proper links to your blog and Quillette post.
Thank you so much!
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Hello and thank you for the kind words! I would be more than happy for you to translate and publish my post (and the editors at Quillette are fine with this). However, may I ask that you send me the translation before publishing it? That way, my Turkish friend can read it to me so I can make sure the message stays consistent with my intent. You can email me at tristanflock@gmail.com.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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Hi Tristan,
I found your articles on Aero and Quilette extremely refreshing. I’m in a place where I’m looking for fresh, informed, and reasonable voices that are not unhinged by either extreme of the dialectic right now. Thank you for being that in the world right now. We need more voices like yours!
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Somehow this comment got lost in my spam folder. Thanks for the kind words! (and for reading)
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