Why nature? I’ll admit it, I used to be skeptical of nature — not that I didn’t enjoy nature,...
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What personality traits make women more likely to be cheated on? What can be done to avoid it?
With summer arriving in the northern hemisphere, the eternal questions of “how much sun” and “to suncreen or not...
Male Physical Attractiveness Part II: Chicks Dig Scars
, Attraction, Evolutionary Psychology, Relationships, 17(Continued from: Male Physical Attractiveness Part I or: You Shallow, Shallow Ladies) The attractiveness of facial symmetry seems to...
Male Physical Attractiveness Part I or: You Shallow, Shallow Ladies
, Attraction, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleo, Relationships, Sex / Gender, 81Note: this contains a review, click here if you’re looking for the official site of The Hollywood Physique. Applied...
Improper Use of Hume's Is-Ought Problem and the Naturalistic Fallacy in Evolutionary Arguments
, Evolutionary Psychology, Science, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, 25It should be no secret that I’m no fan of regurgitated arguments. If you’re going to recite a standardized...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Okay, not all social scientists are dunces. However, an unfortunately large proportion of social scientists are fond of launching...
Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion & Spirituality?
, Darwinism, Evolutionary Psychology, Video, Born to Be Good, Emotions Revealed, Telling Lies, The Compassionate Instinct, The Greatest Show on Earth, 0Featured speakers Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UC San Francisco and Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley...
Dr. Louann Brizendine Talks The Male Brain
, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Sex / Gender, Video, The Blank Slate, The Female Brain, The Male Brain, The Mating Mind, 0Dr. Louann Brizendine discusses her latest book, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think....
Dr. Louann Brizendine Talks The Female Brain
, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Sex / Gender, Video, The Blank Slate, The Female Brain, The Male Brain, The Mating Mind, 5This comprehensive new look at the hormonal roller coaster that rules women’s lives down to the cellular level, “a...
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