Of Monkeys and Men
The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 7 min read
Evolutionary Psychology
A collection of 34 posts
Why Do Men Dominate Chess?
FIDE’s new policy governing who can compete in women’s categories highlights the persistent sex imbalance at the game’s elite levels.
Carole Hooven
· 27 min read
Razib Khan Answers My Most Controversial Questions About Genetics: Quillette Cetera Episode 30
A conversation with geneticist and writer Razib Khan.
Zoe Booth, Razib Khan
· 1 min read
“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History”
An interview with Steven Pinker.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read
The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About
Why women love true crime.
Robert King
· 10 min read
The Unexpected Benefits of Artificial Intimacy: Quillette Cetera Episode 21
An interview with evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks about the positive aspects of AI lovers.
Zoe Booth
· 2 min read
Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16
Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith
Zoe Booth, Holly Lawford-Smith
· 1 min read
Beauty Privilege, Thirst Trapping and Promiscuity Shaming: Quillette Cetera Episode 9
Claire & Zoe discuss the complex world of intrasexual female competition and their experiences with it.
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 2 min read
What Does She See In Him?
The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.
Robert King
· 6 min read
Running Amok
An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.
Robert King
· 8 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food
A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.
Gurwinder Bhogal
· 9 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read