Evolutionary Psychology - Quillette (Page 2)

The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion

Safe abortion is the modern cure for the ancient heartbreaks of neonaticide and abandonment.

Rob Brooks

24 Jun 2022 · 13 min read

What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

Robert King

9 May 2022 · 10 min read

Diamonds Aren't Forever (And Neither is Your Love)

Diamond is the most valuable, not only of precious stones, but of all things in this world. ~Pliny The Elder Loving someone, and having them love you back, is the most precious thing in the world. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook At age 11, I first glimpsed the bewildering anthropologic spectacle

Rob Brooks

17 Feb 2022 · 14 min read

Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent

The result of these two trendlines—the dominance of luxury-belief-driven status competition in a period of extended economic stagnation—was a brew of identity politics, political tribalism, and cultural warfare that would have been bad enough on its own.

Andrew Potter

19 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences

The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).

David C. Geary

20 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?

Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us.

Alex Mackiel

8 Apr 2019 · 19 min read

What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology?

Without an understanding of the selection pressures that shaped our minds, much of human existence is frustratingly bewildering.

Tristan Flock

17 Oct 2018 · 7 min read