If you needed any more evidence that atheism is on the upswing, last week’s Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne was apparently a rollicking success. I was otherwise engaged, but would have loved the chance to hear some of the most provocative thinkers…
First published in The Conversation 10 April 2011 We might expect dramatic sex ratio fluctuations when a whole population experiences extreme food shortages. Teeejayy People often ask me whether natural selection continues to operate on modern humans in industrialised societies,…
First published Friday 30 March 2012 in The Conversation as part of Natural History of the Present. My UNSW colleague Bill Sherwin just sent me a cautionary email. He’s part of an international team that studies the bottlenose dolphins of Shark Bay,…