Yesterday, Jason Collins, in his excellent blog Evolving Economics, posted the following comment under the title “Teaching Evolution in Economics” At the start of the concluding chapter in Gad Saad’s The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption (review coming soon), Saad quotes…
Here is my first-ever column for The Conversation – published 27 March 2012. As part of a column I have decided to call “Natural History of the Present” – it will be ideas and news about research that illustrates the…
Johannesburg-based folks who are interested in science, evolution, sex, music, diet, family life or popular culture (and who isn’t) might wish to attend this event to celebrate the launch of the South African edition of Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’…
First published in The Conversation on 16 March 2012. There’s this gene that about half of all people carry. It’s a pretty nasty gene – it massively increases the risk of the carrier being a murderer or a murder victim,…
Well done to Alex Jordan who graduated with a PhD last evening, and who recently shared (with Laura Warman) the E&ERC‘s Thesis of the Year prize for 2011 for his thesis ‘Social Environment and the Evolution of Male Reproductive Strategy’.
As part of the launch of the US & Canada version of Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution has Shaped the Modern World, Huffington Post have published a slide show of some highlights from the book. If you…