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Gender and Sexual Orientation:

Caster Semenya's Gender: What would the science be?

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...

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Girls Doing Math

Category: Gender and Sexual Orientation

Source and more commentary...

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Converting Gays to Straightitude: FAIL

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...

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Musings on the Aquatic Ape Theory

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

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Math gender gap is not genetic

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...

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Ultimate Causes, Proximate Mechanisms

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...

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More emotional intelligence = more orgasms

Category: Brain and Behavior

Orgasm frequency varies with measured emotional intelligence, even among twins.

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Burn this book

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...

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Grasping the function of the human penis

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.

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Finches Determine Sex of Offspring

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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