Ironically, annual celebrations are somewhat more agrarian than paleo. It became more important to mark off calendar dates in...
Archive for year: 2010
Grain Consumption Caused Neanderthal Extinction: An Alternative Hypothesis
, Anthropology, Diet, Health, Paleo, The Last Human, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, The Vegetarian Myth, 30A new study, ‘Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets‘, got a brief...
Paleoanthropology Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Ecology
, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleo, Video, Gad Saad, Geoffrey Miller, Steven Pinker, 3Since this talk is conducted by paleoanthropologists, it should be worthwhile for those interested in both evolutionary psychology and...
Did Men Evolve to Hate Vegetables and Women to Be Vegetarian?
, Diet, Evolutionary Psychology, Gender, Health, Paleo, Sex / Gender, Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, 52Obligatory disclaimers: Any implied hypothesis in this post is more speculative pondering than a scientific claim. That feels like...
The Evolution of Human Diet
, Diet, Evolutionary Biology, Health, Paleo, Politics, Video, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Last Human, The Vegetarian Myth, Why Evolution Is True, 13The California Academy of Sciences presents a talk by Teresa Steele, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropoplogy at the...
Big Butts and Breasts: What Sir-Mix-A-Lot Got Wrong About Beauty and Attraction
, Evolutionary Psychology, Relationships, 44Ladies, gentlemen, and miscreants… You know that conversation that starts off something like, “what physical feature of mine do...
The Caveman Mystique Vs. Darwinian Feminism
, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Health, Paleo, Politics, Sex / Gender, The Blank Slate, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Mating Mind, the moral landscape, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 43(I wanted to title this post: ‘Of Wheat and Women: Toward a Darwinian Feminism’. Alas, I couldn’t shake the...
Why Your Girlfriend Wants to Cheat On You
, Evolutionary Psychology, Relationships, Survival of the Prettiest, The Evolution of Desire, The Mating Mind, Why Women Have Sex, 64(and Why She’ll Never Admit It) *Note: This post is a carryover from an old blog. It’s the post...
The Hipsters Guide to Scientifically Heaping Righteous Scorn upon Sports Fans
, Evolutionary Psychology, Health, Lifestyle, Relationships, The Mating Mind, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Triathlete Training Bible, 43Stock up on light beer and dip, let the drawstring on your sweat pants fly, and let that gut...
Did Humans Evolve as Swimmers?
, Evolutionary Biology, TED Talks, Video, Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Last Human, Why Evolution Is True, Your Inner Fish History of the Human Body, 11While 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 &...
Evolutionary Biology to Psychology Analogy: From Mario Batali to Don Draper
, Business, Evolutionary Psychology, Marketing, 2My 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...
The Case Against Gluten: For Everyone
, Diet, Health, Paleo, An Edible History of Humanity, celiac, gluten, gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity, The Paleo Diet, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, The Paleo Solution, The Primal Blueprint Cookbook, 47In the U.S., public awareness of gluten free diets has reached widespread recognition, but largely in name only. For...
Why Everything Is Paleo
, Diet, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Health, Paleo, Geoffrey Miller, The Last Human, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 19Heated debates about what definitively *IS* and what definitively *IS NOT* “paleo” abound. While that’s often an interesting question,...
UPDATE: President's Trainer Calling Paleo a "Silly Fad Diet" Is a Vegan Advocate
, Diet, Health, Paleo, Politics, Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, 16What? Am I psychic, or does my attempt to make a logically connected hypothesis just blow my own mind?...
The Paleo Diet and Politics
, Diet, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Health, Paleo, Politics, Religion, Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, The Primal Blueprint Cookbook, 56I hoped this day would never come. Alas, it was almost inevitable. Of the many #notpaleo concepts we face...
The Myth of Food
, Diet, Health, 16The biggest mistake we can make as individuals faced with the daily decisions about what to put in our...
Veganism, Propaganda, Paleo, & Religion
, Diet, Health, Religion, The Evolution of God, The God Delusion, The Vegetarian Myth, 22This is not a treatise on the merits of a veg*an diet versus a paleo diet from a health...
The Adventure Gene
, Adventure, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Featured, Health, Lifestyle, The Blank Slate, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Triathlete Training Bible, 46I may be defective. Not in the woe is me kind of way… more like “The Land of Misfit...
Understanding Evolutionary Psychology in 3 Seconds
, Business, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, 7Understanding 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...
The Pornography-Racism Connection
, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Morality, Survival of the Prettiest, The Blank Slate, The Compassionate Instinct, The Evolution of Desire, The Mating Mind, 9Why does pornography exist? No seriously, setting aside the self-righteously-moral-majority. The question of red dudes with pointy horns is...
*This post has been resurrected from my orphaned blog rulesoptional.com. It was written for entrepreneurs, but there are some...
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