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Evolutionary Biology:

A Tutorial in Human Behavioral Biology

Category: Anthropology

An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.

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Coming to terms with the female orgasm

Category: Anthropology

I think I know why science does not understand the female orgasm. It is because science excels when it breaks free of context, history, human complexities and anthropology, but when a topic requires one to grasp context, history, human complexities and anthropology, then science, especially...

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How Do You Get Sexual Orientation and Gender in Humans?

Category: Brain and Behavior

Humans appear to have a reasonable amount of diversity in their sexual orientations, in what is often referred to as "gender" and in adult behavior generally. When convenient, people will point to "genes" as the "cause" of any particular subset of th is diversity (or...

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Driving The Patriarchy: Demonic Males, Feminism, and Genetic Determinism

Category: Anthropology

Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. "Drives" is a nicely vague term that we...

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Is the origin of life different from evolution?

Category: Evolutionary Biology

I heard it said recently that "Evolution" and "Origin of life" are two separate issues. I know that this is a falsehood, and I'll discuss in a moment how and why it is not true. But first, I checked around with a few people that...

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"If You Love Evolution, Tweet About It!" COE # 36

Category: Carnivals

The Best Evolution Blogging of May, 2011

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Three Academic Books on Bird Migration

Category: Books-Birds

These are the kinds of books you get if you are either a scientists studying bird migration and related issues, or a very serious bird geek. The first two can be obtained at very low prices used, but the third will set you back at...

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Falsehoods: Human Universals

Category: Falsehoods II

There are human universals. There, I said it. Now give me about a half hour to explain why this is both correct and a Falsehood. But first, some background and definition....

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A Creationist Blog Quote Mines Peer Reviewed Research about Protein Evolution

Category: Creationism

It is easy to criticize evolution as long as you leave out all the facts and research and stuff.

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What is meant by "mosaic evolution" and other matters

Category: Evolutionary Biology

A discussion of misconceptions in evolution ... about missing links, or great chains of being, or teleology (the idea that evolution is goal-directed) has got to be the most fun you can have with your pants on. Pursuant to this, let's sharpen and clarify our...

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