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Month: August 2012

Posted on31 August, 201231 August, 2012Articles

Sexual signalling powers the economy

So many of the products that surround us defy common sense. I’m not talking about the “What do vegans eat at Christmas?” craziness of the Tofurky. Or even the unrealistic-fear-of-germs obsessiveness of the antibacterial chopping board. Rather, I’m talking about the…

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Posted on24 August, 2012Articles

Menopause as a consequence of within-family conflict

  Humans are pretty odd animals. Any list of our odd features would be a long one, but menopause would have to come in right near the top. Where men’s capacity to reproduce diminishes steadily at about the same rate…

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Posted on22 August, 201222 August, 2012Articles

Shutting that whole thing down: Todd Akin, rape, pregnancy and abortion

Like almost everybody else I spoke to today, I was staggered, this morning, to hear Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” and pregnancy. The Missouri Republican, who is running for Senate, was justifying his opposition to abortion even in cases…

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Posted on2 August, 20122 August, 2012Articles

Dating with Darwin: A Win for Megan Head

Former SEX LAB PhD student Megan Head (now at Exeter) and her colleague Amber Teacher (Helsinki) took out second place at NESCENT‘s Evolution Film Festival which ran recently at the first Joint World Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Their winning video “Dating…

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