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The Natural Basis for Inequality of the Sexes

Category: Anthropology

Is the Natural World a valid source of guidance for our behavior, morals, ethics, and other more mundane areas of thought such as how to build an airplane and what to eat for breakfast?1 When it comes to airplanes, you'd better be a servant to...

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Mail Order Brides and Hypergyny

Category: Anthropology

I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...

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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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I'm a little worried

Category: feminism

The following is a proof developed by a number of economists at Harvard. It is a proof of the inability of women to understand technologically complex problems, math, engineering, that sort of thing. it is claimed that it almost always works. Now, I'm not saying...

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Precarious Pettiness of Sexual Politics In the Blogosphere: An uppity response to the perspicacious Dr. Isis and an appeal to get serious about sexual aggression and exploitation

Category: Anthropology

Dr. Isis at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess has written an open letter to our sister, Zuska, regarding (in part) the exchanges between my Sbling and myself. Dr. Isis points out that she has had a long term academic interests in breasts, which...

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The Male Boob Gaze

The Sexy Hawt Bodies discussion is back, and Zuska is in full iconic form, hypocrisies included. Well, maybe hypocrisy is too strong a word. Let's just say bending the truth when not really necessary to make her point, and shutting out allies and reasonable voices...

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I'm a chick

In case you were curious. (Ccf Razib. who is nearly 100% dude.)...

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The Evolution of Imprinting

The phrase "genomic imprinting" has come to refer the turning off of a gene (a particular instance of a gene on a particular chromosome duplicated across the cells in a body) so that the gene is not expressed at all, with the turning off of...

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If Marriage is a Sacred Bond between Man and Woman ....

This finger needs a ring! (soure) ... then it's OK if the 'woman' is a guy in drag, right? The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife. It...

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