Aug 29, 2012

Small Family Size Increases the Wealth of Descendants but Reduces Evolutionary Success

Having a small number of children increased the economic success and social position of descendants across up to four generations, but reduced the total number of long-term descendants.

Aug 22, 2012

Bonobo Genius Makes Stone Tools Like Early Humans Did

The findings will fuel the ongoing debate over whether stone tools mark the beginning of modern human culture.

Aug 21, 2012

Social Position Drives Gene Regulation of the Immune System

New research with rhesus macaques shows that dominance rank has a major impact on gene regulation of the immune system.

Aug 20, 2012

Cliodynamics: Can Science Decode the Laws of History?

he new and highly controversial discipline cliodynamics is the most recent attempt to transform history into science.

Aug 7, 2012

Cliodynamics: A Science For Predicting The Future

Evidence for principles that explain past patterns and that just might also predict future trends.

Jul 30, 2012

Does Human Biology Favor Gun Control or Gun Ownership?

Gun control vs. Gun ownership and human nature.

Jul 26, 2012

The Joker’s Wild: On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America

The United States is the deadliest wealthy country in the world. Can science help us explain, or even solve, our national crisis?

Jul 13, 2012

Do Wild Bats Hold the Key to Understanding Human Tribal Behavior?

Disease-causing pathogens–viruses, bacteria and protists–have geographies, both in terms of where they can be found and how common they are within those regions.

Jul 12, 2012

Cultural Evolution of Pants II

The association between horse-riding and wearing of pants.

Jul 9, 2012

Cultural Evolution of Pants

Why do we wear pants?

Apr 20, 2012

Are Taboos Adaptive? Evidence from the Island of Fiji

Are taboos ignorant superstitions, do they contain adaptive wisdom, or are they a mixture of both?

Apr 19, 2012

Big Love: Polygamy, Evolution, and the Law

Why should polygamy be illegal and should the law be changed? Two cases are pending in the US Supreme Court and a case considered by the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 2012 upheld the law.

Feb 27, 2012

Evolution and Racial Inequality

What does evolution have to do with racism and oppression of minority groups?

Feb 18, 2012

Back to Basics with Social Theory

Our economy is built on competition – but, really, we are collaborators.

Feb 11, 2012

Why There Were No Homosexuals in Victorian England (or Iran for that matter)

Gay men don’t have sex that results in children causing their genes not to be passed on: so how come they didn’t “go extinct?”

Jan 27, 2012

Science As A Process Of Constructive Disagreement