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Debra Lieberman is part of the 2nd generation of evolutionary psychologists. I’m proud to have introduced her to evolutionary thinking when she was an undergraduate student at Binghamton University, when I was still teaching a single course on Evolution...

By the quirks of genetics, some people are natural mosquito bait. In any group of 10, it seems, one person will draw a fury of bites, while the rest get off lightly. Which makes a dreamer wonder: Why not devise a nonhuman target to attract mosquitoes...

by Massimo Pigliucci Time to take a break from philosophy of mind and get back to evolutionary psychology. The occasion originates from a recent post by evopsych researcher Robert Kurzban, on what he calls "creationism of the mind." There Kurzban excoriates...

I came across a post about how others have commented on the Galperin et al. study I write about in the post below this one.  It is on the site of Evolutionary Psychology (Google it for the link), by Robert Kurzban,  and criticizes several other...

A study suggests religion might have arisen to protect certain reproductive strategies, like long-term partnership. Casual sex, homosexuality, birth control, abortion — this isn’t just a list of topics to avoid bringing up over Thanksgiving...