Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution has shaped the modern world will be published as a hardcover and ebook in North America in March 2012. They have recently posted the details and the cover image on their website.…
SEX LAB member Dr Michael Kasumovic has been awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award by the Australian Research Council for a project entitled Re-evaluating evolution by examining developmental plasticity in response to the social environment. This comes two weeks…
Harold Camping is back in the news, but for partly the right reasons. If you’ve blocked the sheer banal stupidity from your mind, you might recall that Camping was the American preacher who predicted that the world would end on…
Edith D. Aloise King, Peter B. Banks & Robert C. Brooks. 2011. Sexual conflict in mammals: consequences for mating systems and life history. Mammal Review DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2011.00200.x
The Victorian era (1837–1901) delivered explosive progress in technology and agriculture, transcendent changes in art and literature, and profound growth in rational and progressive thought. Important foundations of modern utilitarianism, feminism, socialism, and democracy were laid in Victorian England. And…
Yesterday’s ARC Grants announcements held two pieces of particularly good news for the SEX LAB. 1. Dr Michael Kasumovic was awarded a Discovery Grant for a project titled “Adaptive plasticity and evolution: linking the genotype and the environment to understand…
I first published this piece in The Conversation on 1 November 2011 as part of their series on the world’s population reaching 7 billion. I had better write fast. Sometime between my deadline to submit this story and the time…