The Ape in the Basement
Why is masturbation so shameful?
Robert Lynch
· 13 min read
Evolution & Human Nature
Quillette's coverage of evolution, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary psychology, examining human nature, sex differences, behavioural genetics, and the science of what makes us who we are.
This Is the Way the World Ends
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
Robert King
· 17 min read
Sex Differences Above the Neck
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 16 min read
What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Robert Lynch
· 9 min read
Agency and Adaptation
Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 8 min read
Selective Pressure, Selective Silence
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 14 min read
Manosfear
Theroux’s documentary on the Manosphere tells half the story—the loudly accessible, politically convenient half.
Robert King
· 17 min read
The Death of the Dating App
Evolutionary psychology suggests an explanation for why so many people have found dating apps a frustrating experience.
Andrew King
· 7 min read
Criminal Research
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 14 min read
Males in the Tails?
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
Theodore P. Hill
· 18 min read
US Immigration Threatened to Separate Twin Sons Born to Gay Fathers: Quillette Cetera Episode 14
A conversation with twin expert Nancy L. Segal.
Zoe Sankey, Nancy L. Segal
· 2 min read
Deliberately Divided—A Review
A Review of Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart by Nancy L. Segal. Rowman & Littlefield, 520 pages (November, 2021) When I first heard about the Louise Wise Services-Child Development Center (LWS-CDC) twin study, I was shocked but also skeptical. A doctor
Bo Winegard
· 8 min read
Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children
More than anything, it was a deep sensitivity to our kids’ unique life histories as individuals—rather than to generalized considerations of group identity—that enabled us to grow together as a newly blended family.
David K. Ryden
· 13 min read
Shame and Silence: The LWS Twin Studies Revisited
Identical twins, especially, are favorites when it comes to exploring identity and duality in dramatic and literary works.
Nancy L. Segal
· 8 min read