Archive for July 2012
Sex and Race Might Not Be What You Think: Two Things You Need to Know About Human Nature
Most starting running backs in the NFL are black and most CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are white. Men dominate in the economic and political worlds and women excel at child rearing and caring for the home… These and many other patterns of difference and inequality between sexes and races are just a part of…
Read More7 Sex Myths Debunked
Everyone knows that men and women are really different. We think differently and act differently because we are wired differently. I mean look at our brains and genitals: they are just plain different. Right? Wrong. What if many of the things we assume about the biology of difference are not so different at all? What…
Read MoreHook-ups, Horror, and Human Evolution
It’s a good thing when pop culture and good science get together Anyone reading my blogs and articles immediately notices that I think being human is messy…and this is not a bad thing. Humans have amazingly rich lives and ridiculously complex social and evolutionary histories that structure the way we see the world: we are…
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