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Maybe We haven’t Met Aliens Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets, too
[The following is from my new book, Human Errors, and first appeared on Literary Hub. I was very excited that they excerpted from this section because I doubt other sites will. This is in the final...
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Attraction and Mate Choice in Humans
When it comes to sex and mating, what do you find attractive? As Dr. Conroy-Beam puts it, “All humans have a psychology of short-term and long-term of mating” and some researchers in the field of...
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The Beauty of Imperfection: Why I Wrote “Human Errors”
[This essay first appeared in Adventures in Poor Taste!] I’ve been thinking a lot about design and imperfection lately. Somewhere in the fog of that reflection, I found myself on the main stage of the...
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Does Trump Fit the Evolutionary Role of Narcissistic Sociopath?
[This essay first appeared in Arc Digital and was co-authored by Nathan H. Lents and Robert Trivers. Credit for the thesis and most of the evolutionary analysis belongs to Trivers.] There is no...
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Maladaptation in Evolutionary Psychology
I just published an entry for the soon-forthcoming Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (edited by husband-wife team of Todd and Viviana Weekes-Shackelford) entitled, Maladaptive...
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Energy Drinks, Taurine, Caffeine, and Addiction: A Complicated Picture
I recently hosted Dr. Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, a scientist at the City College of New York, on my podcast, This World of Humans. The subject of our conversation was her work on taurine, an ingredient...
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Why Facial Symmetry Is So Attractive
What constitutes beauty?Among cultures and through history, standards of beauty have changed considerably. At certain times, stoutness was a symbol of wealth and influence, and thus was considered...
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The Decline of Violence in Homo sapiens
[The following is highly condensed from my chapter The Decline of Violence in Spring/Nature’s new Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.] Scanning the news headlines each day, we are left...
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How Likely is Intelligent Life?
Since the invention of the telescope, humankind has been faced with the overwhelming notion that the universe is vastly larger than our own little world. This also brought the exhilarating but...
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Stranger Danger! Mark Moffett Explains Human and Animal Societies
Yesterday evening, I had dinner with my friend Mark Moffett. As always, we had a wide-ranging discussion about human and animal behavior and this reminded me just how insightful his work on animal...
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