“Beautiful women in advertisements make men act stupid.” Proving the obvious? And of course, it doesn’t happen the other way around… From the Toronto Sun, 2003-12-12: Hot chic… more →
Pragma Synesi - interesting bitsJim wrote 3 days ago: Alvin Plantinga is one of those philosophers that the ID crowd likes to name-drop when attempting to … more →
saij wrote 4 days ago: This is a review of a recent article, cooperation in Defense against a predator, in the Journal of … more →
Jim wrote 5 days ago: I read in article in The Economist on demographics and retirement. In it, the author cited the … more →
Dan Fincke wrote 5 days ago: Interesting arguments. I’m not sure how many of them threaten the credibility of either evolu … more →
sean hazell wrote 5 days ago: An excerpt from Geoffrey Miller’s Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior: “I star … more →
Spaceweaver wrote 1 week ago: This is the second of a three highly interesting interviews made by Richard Dawkins. Highly recommen … more →
louisproyect wrote 1 week ago: When I first got word of the Jared Diamond/New Yorker magazine scandal, I could not help but think … more →
forwearemany wrote 1 week ago: This is a good article on literary darwinism, or at least one that agrees with my preconceived notio … more →
peterreiner wrote 1 week ago: Evolutionary psychology is under attack again. Leading the charge is Sharon Begley who has an ince … more →
whyevolutionistrue wrote 1 week ago: There are several items in the news today relevant to evolutionary psychology. First, David Brooks, … more →
brachinus wrote 1 week ago: Evolutionary psychology gets a grilling by Newsweek. This strikes me as a bit slanted, and overly w … more →
egelwan wrote 1 week ago: A number of scientists argue that we have a so-called ‘behavioral immune system’ that f … more →
Sanjay Srivastava wrote 1 week ago: Sharon Begley has a doozy of an article in Newsweek taking aim at evolutionary psychology. The artic … more →
gypsyturtle wrote 2 weeks ago: So, per Iowa’s suggestion, I’ve been reading Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, a … more →
ender227 wrote 2 weeks ago: There is an idea developed by Richard Dawkins that he calls a ‘meme’ (pronounced ‘ … more →
santitafarella wrote 2 weeks ago: Sometimes contemporary atheists try to wall-off the psychological implications of becoming an atheis … more →
Richard Gilbert wrote 2 weeks ago: from Origins of Human Communication, Chaper Six, “The Grammatical Dimension,” by Michael Tomasello “ … more →
pragmasynesi wrote 2 weeks ago: “Beautiful women in advertisements make men act stupid.” Proving the obvious? And of co … more →
louisproyect wrote 2 weeks ago: Back in the mid-1990s when I first began writing about American Indians and ecology, I was surprise … more →