Is it meaningful if geneticists find that marriage can be influenced by genes?
The power of gene-trait association studies has increased markedly over the last few years. Samples of hundreds of thousands of individuals with genotype and...
The power of gene-trait association studies has increased markedly over the last few years. Samples of hundreds of thousands of individuals with genotype and...
The journal Nature has a review of the new book, Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics, by Catherine Bliss. The review is written by Natha...
I ran across a study from a couple of years ago by Rachel Brans and colleagues, which has an interesting result showing a genetic correlation between plastic...
Daniel Lende has done a nice interview with Northwestern University anthropologist Lee Gettler (“On Testosterone and Real Men: An Interview with Lee Gettler”...
I have always wondered if autism could be an adaptive mutation. However, since I myself have autism, and specifically one of the more fortunate types of auti...
Sports Are 80 Percent Mental has an interview with Peter Vint of the U.S. Olympic Committee: “Do Young Athletes Need Practice Or Genetics? A Conversation Wit...
Benedict Carey describes the live online dissection of the brain of Henry Molaison (“Building a Search Engine of the Brain, Slice by Slice”). There’s a lot o...
Well, if your genes don’t make you a bad driver, maybe they’ll make you a murderer: “Lighter sentence for murderer with ‘bad genes’”
Oh, oh…
Dear Prof. Hawks,
Ann Althouse points to a “chilling locution” in a Wall Street Journal story about health spending: “Nearly 10% of Health Spending Due to Obesity, Report Says”
For some reason, it’s “bash evolutionary psychology” week. First, Sharon Begley writes a 7-page essay in Newsweek, “Don’t Blame the Caveman.”, and now David ...
Honestly, that was my first reaction to an article that includes relatively neutral grey-background shots of Pinker from several angles. Way to go, dude!
So there’s this story about how your fear response may explain your politics: