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Category: sexual selection

Posted on10 April, 201330 May, 2013Articles

Penis size may be driven by women (oh, and it matters)

How important is penis size? Authors from the Australian National University, Monash and La Trobe provide the most complete answer yet: the size of a flaccid penis can significantly affect how attractive a man’s body is to women. Writing in…

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Posted on20 December, 201220 December, 2012Articles

Hands are for fighting. Not for talking.

A few weeks ago I found myself reading up about the evolution of language in preparation for a talk I gave to the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia’s conference in Perth. It turns out the evolutionary forces that shaped humanity’s capacity…

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Posted on20 November, 201216 May, 2013Articles

Is human intellect on the downward slide?

I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory,…

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Posted on30 August, 201130 August, 2011Articles

When men were boys – demographic data shows male puberty starts 4 years sooner than it did in 1800

You’ve no doubt heard that girls are entering puberty earlier than they ever have before. It’s one of those science-lite stories beloved of tabloid papers and current affairs programs. One recent article had 10 to 15 percent of American 7…

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