Starting on June 7th 2021 I m going to be teaching my second seminar on the science of sex differences, an eternal flame in the culture wars and a debate I ve engaged with myself. I ll be covering 6 essential topics: sex itself, sex differences in sexuality, sex differences in personality, the development of sex differences, sex Continue reading "The Science of Sex Differences Seminar"
When you ask people what experiences have shaped them, they commonly mention being bullied at school or an unkind offhanded remark a parent or teacher made. In my experience, people are much less likely to mention an infection or physical injury as part of their narrative. I just recovered from Covid19. And I feel different. Continue reading "Can Covid change your personality?"
This blog first appeared on my Sentientist blog a few years back. Since then, Geoffrey Miller, developed these ideas more and gave a talk on how sexually transmitted pathogens could influence behavior at the Ancestral Health Symposium in 2016, check it out here. Could sexually transmitted infections be trying to make you sexier? We have Continue reading "Sexually transmitted diseases selfishly…
People often ask me for evolutionary psychology reading recommendations. I taught a couple of seminar series on evolutionary psychology for laypeople. Below see my seminar welcome email plus highlighted readings for the four topics, foundations of evolutionary psychology, sex and sex differences, emotions and mental health and morality. Evolutionary Psychology: Foundations, Questions, and…
I wrote this essay a few years ago for a futurist publication after I gave a talk about the future of in vitro meat now smartly rebranded as clean meat. Lately clean meat has been in the news because it s making huge strides in development and market uptake. For example, chicken clean meat is Continue reading "The future of food- A roadmap to clean meat"
I ve been married to Geoffrey Miller, just over a year. Our first anniversary was November 29th, 2020. In this first year we honeymooned in China, Indonesia and Singapore, locked down together, gave talks together, renovated and sold a house together and took a road trip from New Mexico to the East Coast where we are Continue reading "An open source wedding- Part 1 vows"
The funnest conference I have ever attended was the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine meeting (ZAMM) back in 2018. Spearheaded by Athena Aktipis, there were talks on everything from first aid to Vodou. Baba Brinkman did a rap incorporating ideas from each and every one of the talks at the end of the day and Max Brooks, Continue reading "Sex, Tech and the Zombie Apocalypse"
This is a lightly edited version of an article I wrote that first appeared in Jacobite. I had a great conversation about this article and evolutionary psychology more generally (link here) with John Danaher, who edited a book about sex robots. Most recently, I gave a presentation as a damaged android for the Zombie Apocalypse Continue reading "Uncanny Vulvas"
A couple of months ago I wrote a piece called “Practical Veganism”. I didn t choose the title. I don’t think anyone likes the v word but it was a bit of a tongue in cheek title from the editors. It has led to many assumptions about the case I make- that I was simply advocating Continue reading "Practical Veganism- FAQs"
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings by Randy Nesse examines emotions and mental illness from an evolutionary psychology perspective. I was really excited about reading this book because Nesse s Why We Get Sick had a huge impact on me when I read it as an undergrad, encouraging me to think of the intersection between health psychology Continue reading "10 ideas from Good Reasons for Bad Feelings Insights…