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Okay okay okay, so only one of these explicitly promotes “paleo”. There are a few general guidelines I followed...
Richard Manning, author of Against the Grain (2004), discusses the ‘Green Revolution’ and the end of cheap oil. It’s...
Exploring the theory and implementation of an intentional paleo community by drawing from hunter-gatherer anthropology and evolved human psychology.
Richard Manning, author of Against the Grain (2004), frames civilization as a human zoo that makes us all psychotic....
It disturbs me that vegetarians/vegans didn't seem to take the briefest of moments to reflect on a report of...
Why nature? I’ll admit it, I used to be skeptical of nature — not that I didn’t enjoy nature,...
The fitness community surrounding "paleo" doesn't work for me. I don't mean it doesn't physically work, I mean that...
Announcing my next expedition, "Fatbikerafting the Arctic". It's been called epic, but there's a chance I might live.
The narrative of human males evolving as tribal leaders in the paleolithic is a myth. The anthropology, evolutionary biology,...
I hope this is just as appropriate for non-United-Statesians as those celebrating Thanksgiving today. Over the past year, I...
I know, it’s a scary thought: What if, by the sheer stroke of fate, life somehow happens to...
An Oregon wolf extermination hunt was temporarily delayed, and conservationists have been ordered to put up cash to compensate...
Journal Article of the Week Externalities from grain consumption: a survey by Matthew Metzgar, PhD. Okay, well… I wanted...
This article in the journal Nutrition was pretty simple. A 19 year old male sought treatment for lack of...
Most of the response from my post, “Agriculture Is Imperialism“, was positive. There were a few naysayers, but none...
Agriculture is the basis for models of the primitive and imperial state. Plant-based diets cannot support even paleolithic human...
As part of my ongoing obsession for Arctic adventures, I’ve been watching everything I can get my eyeballs on...
Context of questionable relevance It was exactly one year ago today that I first uttered the phrase, “paleo is...
I’m just going to go way out on a limb here and assert that individual liberty is a good...
The list is my subjective (yet absolutely definitive and authoritative) list of areas of inquiry in the evolutionary health...
It's tempting to think about evolution as a function of time. This makes some intuitive sense because evolution happens...
Blinded by Science: Mat Lalonde Urges Paleo Bloggers to Look Through the Wrong End of the Microscope
My attendance at the Ancestral Health Symposium was positive in a zillion ways. I spent most of the two...
What personality traits make women more likely to be cheated on? What can be done to avoid it?
What personality traits in men lead make them more likely to be cheated on? Is there any way to...
I don’t know about you, but blatant show-offs strike me as some of the basest individuals on the planet....
This is a review of Power Up Your Brain: the Neuroscience of Enlightenment by David Perlmutter, MD and Alberto...
Analysis of the 13,000,000+ viewed (in a month) video of two kids high-fiving after their first kiss. A follow-up...
Your hunger: CURED. Your boring Saturday night: SOLVED. Eat some bacon laced goodness whilst watching key animal rights bioethicist,...
With summer arriving in the northern hemisphere, the eternal questions of “how much sun” and “to suncreen or not...
When Satoshi Kanazawa isn’t killing puppies, eating babies, and biting the heads off of chickens while on stage, he...
(Continued from: Male Physical Attractiveness Part I or: You Shallow, Shallow Ladies) The attractiveness of facial symmetry seems to...
It has been brought to our attention that milk is good for you. Thus, our team would like to...
Some months ago I started pondering the paleo diet, or some of its purveyors and adherents, as possibly embodying a...
Beautiful people don’t mind being judged beautiful any more than smart people mind being judged smart. Yes, some will...
First off, thanks to everyone who expressed concern for me and the boat in the hours before and after...
A common veg*n argument is that we’ve all just been tricked into eating meat by our cultural programming. However,...
Every time I hear someone say “if you don’t like it, leave”, I half expect someone to artfully discharge...
Note: this contains a review, click here if you’re looking for the official site of The Hollywood Physique. Applied...
A standard principle in evolutionary biology is that the sex that invests the most in reproduction is the most...
It should be no secret that I’m no fan of regurgitated arguments. If you’re going to recite a standardized...
There’s probably an evolutionary psychology explanation for why guys are attracted to the “hot librarian” stereotype. I’ll put forward...
Ostensibly, conversations about “health care” in the United States of America are conducted within the prevailing framework of market...
Preface *Skip to below the videos if you don’t care about an aside about doctors. I almost feel bad...
Ironically, annual celebrations are somewhat more agrarian than paleo. It became more important to mark off calendar dates in...
A new study, ‘Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets‘, got a brief...
Since this talk is conducted by paleoanthropologists, it should be worthwhile for those interested in both evolutionary psychology and...
Obligatory disclaimers: Any implied hypothesis in this post is more speculative pondering than a scientific claim. That feels like...
The California Academy of Sciences presents a talk by Teresa Steele, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropoplogy at the...
Ladies, gentlemen, and miscreants… You know that conversation that starts off something like, “what physical feature of mine do...
(I wanted to title this post: ‘Of Wheat and Women: Toward a Darwinian Feminism’. Alas, I couldn’t shake the...
(and Why She’ll Never Admit It) *Note: This post is a carryover from an old blog. It’s the post...
Stock up on light beer and dip, let the drawstring on your sweat pants fly, and let that gut...
While doing research for my post on the mammalian dive reflex, I stumbled across an interesting TED video. It...
As you all know, Thanksgiving (in the United States of America) falls on the monumentous occasion of the 2 month &...
My recent post that touched on the evolutionary applications to marketing was revelatory. Though it received fewer public comments...
Today I’d like to share an interview of Geoffrey Miller, PhD recorded at Wieden + Kennedy (Portland) on May...
In his talk, “A New Tale of the Primate Split”, Dr. Todd Disotell delivers an interesting, if heady...
In the U.S., public awareness of gluten free diets has reached widespread recognition, but largely in name only. For...
Heated debates about what definitively *IS* and what definitively *IS NOT* “paleo” abound. While that’s often an interesting question,...
What? Am I psychic, or does my attempt to make a logically connected hypothesis just blow my own mind?...
I hoped this day would never come. Alas, it was almost inevitable. Of the many #notpaleo concepts we face...
The biggest mistake we can make as individuals faced with the daily decisions about what to put in our...
This is not a treatise on the merits of a veg*an diet versus a paleo diet from a health...
I may be defective. Not in the woe is me kind of way… more like “The Land of Misfit...
Understanding the elemental foundation of evolutionary psychology is as simple as pondering this question: Why do we ride...
Yesterday, I made it to the bottom of the mountain before my bike did… shattering my clavicle in the process. Since...
Why does pornography exist? No seriously, setting aside the self-righteously-moral-majority. The question of red dudes with pointy horns is...
A superpower we all have! Some of the quirks of evolution shine through in weird ways. The examples you...
“Inuit Odyssey follows Canadian Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson as he takes us on a visually stunning journey across the North,...
*This post has been resurrected from my orphaned blog rulesoptional.com. It was written for entrepreneurs, but there are some...
Much of my training life consists of hikes and trail runs along the Southern Oregon Coast. I sometimes question...
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Okay, not all social scientists are dunces. However, an unfortunately large proportion of social scientists are fond of launching...
What would happen if the world-at-large turned on wheat? What if the small, but growing movement to expunge wheat...
It’s easy to just talk about diet and the paleolithic era by saying “human evolution in the paleolithic”. That’s...
Featured speakers Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UC San Francisco and Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley...
Dr. Louann Brizendine discusses her latest book, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think....
This comprehensive new look at the hormonal roller coaster that rules women’s lives down to the cellular level, “a...
Richard Dawkins discusses his bestseller, The God Delusion, in which he argues that there is no rational or moral...
Christopher Hitchens speaks about his new book God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Hitchens, an always colorful...
TED Talks: Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in “Stairway...
Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule (“Do unto others…”),...
Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World with Sam Harris speaking at the...
Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, recounts the history of Darwinism by explaining the theories of evolution and natural selection....
