Critics of evolutionary psychology often levy the accusation that the field is tantamount to biological determinism. Countless evolutionists have explained away this astonishingly false concern and ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my friend Stephen Jay Gould, acknowledging his faults but also saying that I thought him a great force for moral good. The reason why I wrote was because, just ...

Sadly Lady Gaga, the manic new queen of reinvention, has fallen prey to the fatalistic doctrine of biological determinism. Earlier this month she boasted to Vogue: "I am the excuse to explore your ...

I’m a bit late on this; following intradisciplinary feuding among academic anthropologists usually isn’t a high priority, but this is an interesting story. Marshall Sahlins, a prominent anthropologist ...

For the first time, scientists have found genetic variants that could influence when people have sex for the first time — and the age at which they have their first kids. While social and ...

Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Causality, Genomic Regulation, and Evolution in the Post-Genomic Era: A Tribute to Eric Davidson (December 2017), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The concepts of hierarchical ...

I opened this book with considerable anxiety. The blurb and advance praise on the back make clear that Why We Do It (have sex, that is) aims to shatter myths, recast darwinism and fundamentally change ...

If you haven’t read the full text of this leaked memo that now-fired Google software engineer James Damore sent around to his co-workers, here’s the Cliff’s Notes version: A pervasive “left” bias at ...

Although descriptions of purported differences between male and female human brains have been around for a long time, scientific studies have failed to correlate brain differences with sex – that is, ...

"Fat people are different from normal weight or slim people. Fat people are different even at a cellular level." The late Walter J. Kempner, MD of Duke University Medical Center announced this one ...