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If You can Read This, You are a Darwinian Success Story
As a psychology professor, I do lots of different things in my job. I help students register for classes, I teach classes on this and that, I talk with students about how to achieve their career goals, I conduct research … Continue reading
The Evolutionary Psychology of Little League – Darwin Meets America
In reality, to do the topic of the evolutionary psychology of the Little League experience justice would require a full book – and perhaps a multi-volume series. It’s all in there. Just a sampling of the evolutionarily relevant concepts (see … Continue reading
Howard Bloom on the Evolution of Sex
Don’t miss this rare public appearance by world-renowned writer and thinker, Howard Bloom – author of The God Problem, The Lucifer Principle and more (www.howardbloom.net). WHAT: Sex and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (a talk regarding Bloom’s thoughts on The … Continue reading
The Evolutionary Psychology of the Zombie Apocalypse
Don’t worry – as a statistician, I put the likelihood of an all-out zombie apocalypse at very very close to zero – seriously, no reason to panic! This said, one of my current students, Paul, just engaged me in a … Continue reading
Kim Kardashian’s baby: Why we are all addicted to gossip.
Forged from fragments of private disclosures, invidious rumors, and personal inventions, gossip is a weapon often wielded to wound an absent other. In a brilliant but troubling short story by William Faulkner—“Dry September”—it even leads to the tragic murder of … Continue reading
Evolutionary Psychology’s Expansion – Our Promise to Darwin
When Charles Darwin (1859) articulated his theory of natural selection and described how natural forces are responsible for the beauty, diversity, and origins of life, he was thinking big. And his thinking was integrative. In his voyages around the world, … Continue reading
Ancestral Health Symposium 2013 Wrap Up
What better way to kick off my first blog entry than providing a wrap-up of how Darwinism leaped off the page and into the very mitochondria of my 140-some-odd-trillion cells over the past year, and how this culminated in my … Continue reading
Why We Love the Out of Doors – Evolutionary Psychology, Biophilia, and Walking in the Woods
When astronauts spend time in outer space, they often focus energy on life forms from Earth – such as the wheat cultivated on the Russian space station Mir by American astronaut John Blaha, and others, in the 1990s. One might … Continue reading
Social Comparison, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Best Job in the World
My friend Navin pointed out this online calculator to me called the “global rich list” – you type in your net annual income, and it tells you, correcting for cost of living, where you stack up to the billions of … Continue reading
Interpreting the cup: Schopenhauer, Darwin, and human suffering.
I There is something discomfiting about our society’s constant moral admonitions that we should be happy. The world is not always a benevolent place. And our lives are not always filled with joy. It is vexing to pretend perpetually … Continue reading
