Author Archives: Glenn Geher
EvoS Summit – Expanding Darwin’s Reach across the Ivory Archipelago
DATE: 10/26 (Friday) TIME: 9:30am – 7:30pm Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/150099508461642/ In recent years, evolution, the most powerful theory in the life sciences, has been applied to academic questions that span across all islands of academia. From anthropology to literary studies … Continue reading
The Motivated Ape: Lessons from a 5K in the Outerbanks of North Carolina
The human spirit is amazing. I write from a beach house in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where my brothers (Seth and Adam) and I – and our families – are doing our first annual all-family vacation. In modern … Continue reading
A Direct Test of Alloparenting and the Grandmother Effect – Thanks for all your Help, Mom!
Why are we different from the Neanderthals? Why do we roam the planet in the billions while our likely intelligent distant cousins permeate only ancient gravesites or the halls of natural history museums? Continue reading
An Evolutionarily Charged “Happy Father’s Day” to the One and Only Big Larry!
So I’m busy – too busy – and every now and again something important gets right by me – I’ll admit it! Usually for Father’s Day, I’ll call my dad – typically get him a card ahead of time – … Continue reading
Creating the world’s deepest, most diverse, and most powerful evolution education ever seen – in New York, of course!
In the past few years, the folks associated with the New Paltz EvoS program have been working directly with Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza at Stonybrook – who are, in their own way, working on the same thing as we … Continue reading
Broadway’s Book of Mormon (More Offensive Than Promised), The Evolutionary Function of Religion, and our 15th Wedding Anniversary
Apparently, like pretty much all human-created entities, Mormonism is not necessarily perfect. Trey Parker and Matt Stone (yes, the dudes who made South Park) point this fact out in their Broadway premiere – Book of Mormon – and the result … Continue reading
Northern New England Values and Evolutionary Psychology: The Granite State Rocked
Several years ago, when David Zehr, an academic dean at Plymouth State University in upstate NH, offered to host NEEPS one year – some of us thought this was almost too good to be true. That would be the folks … Continue reading
The Evolution Paradox in Higher Education (Or how I had to buck up and teach myself this evolution stuff!)
As I’ve written in several of my publications, evolution is under attack. But not only by religious fundamentalists, who may reject evolution outright due to conflicts regarding the origins of life. This particular rejection is sort of the high-profile rejection … Continue reading
The Evolutionary Importance of Mixed-Age Learning – Lessons from a Church Basement
So in spite of how ridiculous Kramer appeared when he famously beat out the karate competition consisting of a bunch of 7-year olds (Seinfeld allusion – you had to be there …), I’ve joined my daughter Megan (11) and son … Continue reading
Whiny Kids and the Naturalistic Fallacy (Or Why Evolutionary Psychologists don’t like Whiny Kids Either!)
So if you don’t live in a cave, you’ve likely run into EvoS Journal Editor Rose Chang’s newest research – blurbed all over the news, including WINS 1010 (one of NYC’s largest news radio stations), MSNBC, Reuters, Huffington Post, and … Continue reading
