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...
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Linking out to a book review on sociogenomics
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...
Brain plasticity in adults and cognition
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...
Testosterone, fatherhood,
Daniel Lende has done a nice interview with Northwestern University anthropologist Lee Gettler (“On Testosterone and Real Men: An Interview with Lee Gettler”...
Mailbag: Could autism genes be adaptive?
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 and genetics
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...
"For the time being, Mr. Gretzky is still using his brain."
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...
Bad genes
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’”
Driving genes
Oh, oh…
Mailbag: Neandertal wanderlust
Dear Prof. Hawks,
"We have ways of changing behavior"
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”
"Our brains are fluid and plastic"
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 ...
Steve Pinker's Hot Hot Legs profiled in NY Times Magazine
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!
A spider on your face won't stop me from criticizing this article
So there’s this story about how your fear response may explain your politics: