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Category: Gender and Sexual Orientation
Well, we don't know because the necessary detailed information has not been released. I do not personally know the Caster Semenya story, medically or biologically speaking, but there has been a lot of discussion and apparently wild speculation on this, and I may have a...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:17 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Gender and Sexual Orientation
Source and more commentary...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:08 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: GLBTA
Clearly, the whole gay-straight thing is a false dichotomy anyway... And the APA has decided that changing sexual orientation is impossible. That is quite a shift in policy form the days when the information about homosexuality in the psychology literature was all about "abberent" behavior...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:43 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
A theory like this can evolve into a zombie that will eat the brains of science geeks, graduate students, and others, for decades
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:36 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: I'll get back to you on this
Or to put it more accurately, yet another study seems to show that girls learn from their teachers, parents, and peers that they are not supposed to be good at math. Sterotypes can be fulfilled. Pleas stop doing that, everyone. Here is some press on...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:34 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolutionary Biology
Why does a soldier throw himself on a hand grenade to save the lives of a half-dozen unrelated fellow soldiers? Why does someone run into a burning building they happen to be passing to save a child they don't know? From a Darwinian perspective these...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:04 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
Orgasm frequency varies with measured emotional intelligence, even among twins.
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:05 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex Differences
... well, not really, you should not burn any book. But don't just leave this one around for your kids to accidentally read. Source of book. Hat tip...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:01 PM • 148 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolutionary Biology
Gallup's work is written up an an all-too-sophomoric article which just falls short of explaining this important biological phenomenon in terms of a pair of headlights, a flashlight, and a little red wagon.
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:45 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolutionary Biology
As you know if you read my blog, Trivers Willard is an important theoretical construct which has been tested numerous times. TW works in some species, not in others, and overall, that should be predictable (accroding to TW). It turns out that finches control the...
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