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October 20, 2008
Personality and politics - Dopamine run amuck - Primitive people in the modern world - Money talks - Hiatus 
October 14, 2008
Can Pleistocene people be happy in the modern world? - The cause of superstition - The genetics of sharing - Imprinted for a mate - Of math and rats
October 13, 2008
Social scents - Is it worth it? - The face of aggression - Why heroism is worth the risk - Baby language is what babies are looking for
October 2, 2008
The wisdom of markets and the idiocy of politics - Big brains may have big costs - Why anecdote beats science - The nose knows, unless ... - How to improve your memory
August 29, 2008
Vengeance is human too - The upside of hay fever - The species with two brains - Men: they're always advertising - This is mom's brain on her baby's smile
August 25, 2008
A face to meet the faces that you meet - It's mom's gene that did it - The feelings of one-night stands - Short attention span as an adaptation - Lose status, buy status
August 21, 2008
That contraption between your ears - Just waiting to cook - Explaining the t-shirt drawer - The propinquity of friendship - Why follow social rules?
July 9, 2008
We are so special - The god in your machine - Unconditional love did not evolve - Tragedy and our evolved response - No problem
July 7, 2008
Morally wired - Beholding beauty - The yummy hormone - Not totally rational - Following the leader
July 7, 2008
Charles Darwin needs you! - Take off your shoes - Hierarchy, money, and the brain - That sexy voice - Boys and breakfast
May 2, 2008
The far-reaching influence of disease - Monkeys and kids - Sex and money (1) - Sex and money (2) - Guess who's coming to dinner?
May 1, 2008
Group selection redux, again - The sickness response - Give to get happy - Do beautiful women want it all? - It's highly adaptive but still a pain
March 26, 2008
Experience, ignorance, and science - The nose knows - Developing that executive function - An understandable idiocy - How tall is jealousy?
March 21, 2008
Sugar, sugar - We don't like spiders and snakes - A kiss is just a kiss - Are we wired to goo-goo at babies? - Pay attention to the evolution as well as to the economics
March 10, 2008
Of chimps and free trade - Be younger than you are - When the tongue knows too much - Men look for beauty, women look for earning power, maybe - What the terrible two's are for
March 10, 2008
Biology, markets, and science - Monkey as financial manager - Live the way your body was adapted to live - Long, but not too long - Making better babies
March 10, 2008
Die trying - Hunting and gathering at the mall - The scent of a stranger - A smile in the voice - Scientific cause and moral blame
December 17, 2007
Can Christmas make you happy? - The optimal age difference for lifetime reproductive success - Start young to get the kid to like fruits and veggies - Play nice and be my friend - So tough it hurts
December 3, 2007
Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert - The doctor is in—you - Stress and the gender of babies - We're all in denial - Curves and brains
November 19, 2007
Dying of cancer in paradise - What do monkeys and humans have in common? - A look and a smile - Don't try to keep the baby absolutely germ free - Who's talking?
November 6, 2007
The Happiness Hypothesis - Laughing Buddha and happy monks - More on less - When beauty misleads - Did hostility and altruism evolve together?
October 22, 2007
It's all down in grey and white - Perhaps we are the fair ape? - Kids hear the darnedest things - Tuned in - Lap dancing and fertility
October 8, 2007
Don't worry, be hungry - A car is not a natural kind - That deep voice of love - The Grandmother Hypothesis revisited - Is morality in the genes?
September 28, 2007
Is war natural? - Triumph of the tuber - Try it. You'll like it. - It's not always Nature - We know what you really want
September 28, 2007
Longevity and dirty old men - Fat kids and early puberty - If only the Clan of the Cave Bear had a printing press - Everyone recognizes baby talk - Gilgamesh is no guide
September 28, 2007
Sex ratios, culture, and politics - Altruism and conspicuous consumption - Don't believe the numbers - The power of pink - They don't all look alike; just the outsiders do
September 28, 2007
Oh, my aching back - Human nature isn't PC - Great expectations - When it's bad to be cool - It true! We are unique!
September 28, 2007
The evolution of cooperation - Death and status - Eat Like a Caveman - Flex those pecs - TV can't increase vocabulary
September 28, 2007
The Puzzle of Altruism - Evolutionarily vulnerable - The two faces of pride - Daddy's girl - Wishing the best to "Bob"
September 28, 2007
Kids do the darnedest things - The gossiping ape - True grit - Who sleeps around? - We judge, then we argue
September 26, 2007
Philosophy, science, and morals - Fishing and civilization - Sexual orientation and brains - Prudence or pleasure? - Something in the way she moves
September 26, 2007
We didn't evolve for math; and it shows - Mirror, mirror, in your head (part deux) - Losing money really does hurt - She looks, um ... nice - Does Oscar indicate fitness?
September 26, 2007
Mating Minds, by Geoffrey Miller - Why do men help raise the kids? - Brad Pitt need not apply - How to live to 100 - The kindness of strangers
September 26, 2007
Why cancer? - One bdrm, view, all mod cons - This is your brain in love - Is teenage behavior inevitable? - The power of social norms
September 26, 2007
Self deception is a wonderful thing - Birds do it - Is laughter a laughing matter? - Imitation and kids - Can a computer make a moral judgments?
September 26, 2007
The pursuit of happiness - The long and short of it - Real men heal quickly - Of hormones and teen angst - Just friends
September 26, 2007
Darwin, gods and churches - Junior and the veggies - When faces aren't - Gals like testosterone too - Patience really is a virtue
September 25, 2007
Women made us - Average is better - Why do women live longer than men? - The power of irrational thinking - The limits of compassion
September 25, 2007
Primates and Philosophers, by Frans de Waal - The sound of evolution - What your penis is telling her - The higher the status, the longer the life - Why do good?
September 25, 2007
That danged tangled web - The chimp diet - Instinct sometimes beats reason - What's opposite? - This is your brain on credit
September 25, 2007
The mystery of music - The mirror of laughter - Why do men have deeper voices than women? - Teenagers do the stupidest things - Altruism and group selection
September 25, 2007
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins - Where are my glasses? - Walking taller - Daddy's eyes - Risk is in the genes
September 25, 2007
Why religion? - Happy and healthy - Exclusion and the brain - Jeepers, creepers - Mom and longevity
September 25, 2007
Mirror, Mirror, in Your Head - Monkeying Around in the Office - Life Is Cruel - Blue-eyed Paternity - Blood on the Breeze
September 25, 2007
Why are we blessed with buns? - The evolution of fat - Clothes make the women on the make - Trophy husbands? - The warm feeling of giving
September 24, 2007
Sperm Is from Men, Eggs Are from Women, by Joe Quirk - The evolution of fat - Eat your veggies! - Beauty and the brain - If they look related, ... - Be kind, build bonds
September 24, 2007
The uniqueness of us - The scent of the father - I was just thinking - Xenophobia strikes deep - Our leaders have known this forever
September 24, 2007
Big hairless chimps? - The Michelin Guide in your mouth - Love and disease - You only get one (quick) chance to make a good first impression - I'll call my cousin
September 24, 2007
No Two Alike, by Judith Rich Harris - Evolution and landscape - Rationality and emotion - Wake up and smell the pheromones - Kids can count
September 12, 2007
Status and health - Why you don't like spiders and snakes - Sex in the cultural wars - Babies and Dad's brain - Politics and emotion
September 12, 2007
In with the "in" crowd - Gender and susceptibility - The eys have it - Of men and menarche - Is fatherhood natural?
September 12, 2007
That just confirms it - I'm just a kid at heart - Young moms, old moms - Eeee-wwwwww! - Over confidence kills (others)
September 11, 2007
Longevity - Siesta science - It takes all kinds - Are we on the same wavelength? - That face in the crowd
September 11, 2007
Pleistocene brain, mobile phone - See food diet - Walking the walk - Darwinian fratricide - Moms make moms
September 11, 2007
Eat less, live longer - Why women live longer than men - Monkey business - Literally looking for Mr. Right - Noble savages take another knock on the head
September 10, 2007
Economics and evolutionary psychology - Lingerie beats testosterone - Male rivalry and the scent of a woman - Surprisingly monogamous - Lying for status
September 10, 2007
Religion: Placebo of the masses? - Laughter and hormones - Utopia goes nowhere - Rich or handsome? - Loneliness kills
September 10, 2007
Getting the body to heal itself - Why lefties? - Boys and girls and sex& - Baby's first words - Is culture the key?
August 31, 2007
The wandering eye sees more than you know - Evolution and disease - Is the age of puberty maladaptive? - Genes and culture - Meat or vegetables?
August 31, 2007
What is it about status? - Love is essential - The sweet and the bitter - The rule of attraction - Even monkeys have police
August 31, 2007
Evolution and empty wallets - Ideas are faster than genes - What's sauce for the gander, ... - Some of it is in your mind - Older kids and younger kids
August 30, 2007
The second deadly sin - The new world's gift to Nature's medicine chest - What the world needs now is more neurotrophins - Exit romance, enter baby - A nation, a state, and war
August 30, 2007
Rich or poor, it's nice to have money - Unwed mothers have trouble finding good husbands - Building better kids around the dinner table - Sleep is in the genes - Know thyself? No way!
August 29, 2007
Ain't nobody here but us primates - Oh yeah? Well what about the time ... - To swear is human - They've got rhythm - Warning!
August 29, 2007
The children know - As good as it gets - That's it? - Candy is dandy - Those who live by the spear
August 29, 2007
Delaying gratification: why is it so hard? - Fat forever? Or can you outwit your urge to eat? - Face Reading: What was Mona Lisa saying, anyway? - Art? What is it, and who decides?
August 29, 2007
Blood lust :An evolutionary strategy? - Spoil your kids and reap their ingratitude - The marijuana garden in your brain - A strategy to become a great musician even without talent - Genes reveal your ancestor's philandering - Is a woman's sexual endurance genetic?
August 28, 2007
Taming your wild amydala - Anxious? Check your serotonin transporter - Or, it may be your GABA receptors - Innate cannabis chemical erases fears - Once shy, always shy? - A pill to reduce fear - Phobia and anxiety cures
August 28, 2007
Revenge! Is it in your genes? - Suicide bombers: How interlligent are they?
August 28, 2007
Are we rational? - Rejection really does hurt - Can evolution explain a preference for sons? - What's in a laugh? - Quit pickin' and start knittin'
August 27, 2007
Why the bad news? - Real men don't pay attention to this stuff - Men want status - What is right? - Is diet the reason?
August 27, 2007
Where politics comes from - Eat less, live longer - Intelligence is expensive - God and Mammon? - How bad girls got that way
August 27, 2007
Is government good for your diet? - Put a little stress in your life - Are sexual strategies in the genes? - It's not nurture! - Who needs anger management?
July 20, 2007
Homeland security fails the Darwinian test - So you want to live forever? - Music hath charms. But why? - In pursuit of the obvious - Baby talk
July 20, 2007
Why are we never as happy as we thought we'd be? - Should you give up meat? - You are what your mother ate - Can you smell love? - Darwin and terrorism
July 20, 2007
So you want your child to speak a second language? - Need to shed pounds? Walk - Can learning do what a pill can do? - The more things change ... - Think and be free
July 19, 2007
Do we have a moral sense? - Is stress good for you? - Why guilty pleasures? - Fidelity is the long-term key - Can you make your baby smart?
July 19, 2007
Why do we like to think it's a small world? - Can meditation contribute to health? - Will imitating celebrities bring success? - Aren't all brains the same? - What's happeded to my baby girl?
July 18, 2007
Are women better at business than men?; Want to be healthy? Be happy.; Learning fear; So what if it's in your genes?; Friends may be your kid's worst enemy
July 18, 2007
Sex and arithmetic; Why do we lie?; Empathy near and far; The ties that bind; If your kid grows up to be like you, is that good or bad?
July 18, 2007
Sex, lies, and self-reporting surveys; You're never too old, if you start young enough; Want to lower your cholesterol? Go ape; Want your kid to have a good verbal memory?; Are we doomed?
July 17, 2007
Why is business so disliked?; How to avoid dementia; Kids and brains; Improve your ability to learn; Rival ways or complementary ways?
July 17, 2007
Immortality--Is it in your future?; Is your depression rooted in low self-esteem, or high homocysteine?; Sex: Do we really need it?; Woe be unto the artificial child?; Parentless chilren: A brave new world
July 16, 2007
Put a little science in your love life; Genes and lung cancer—and what you can do; Can't put a name to that face?; How to help your teen; How social policy hurts
July 16, 2007
What's the evolutionary point of laughter? The key to physical and emotional health; You paid for it; Is that love you smell?; What can you do with a moody teen?
July 9, 2007
Cinderella: Is the story in our genes?; Is your doctor killing you?; What if you're a "high-risk personality"?; Too much negativity in your relationship?; Reason or emotion?
July 9, 2007
Dietary Secrets from Your Evolutionary Past; On Curing Depression; On Mate Poaching; On Breast Feeding; On Human Violence
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