Taking the human extended phenotypes seriously
Back in 1982 Richard Dawkins wrote a book called The Extended Phenotype, which argued that the "phenotype should not be limited to biological processes such as protein biosynthesis or tissue…
Back in 1982 Richard Dawkins wrote a book called The Extended Phenotype, which argued that the "phenotype should not be limited to biological processes such as protein biosynthesis or tissue…
In the continuing debate about mental illness, we have roughly the following situation: Bryan Caplan representing the Thomas Szasz camp Scott Alexander representing the pragmatist "define mental illness in a…
Cold winters theory gets at bad name, even from fellow hereditarians. In fact, the article about it was deleted from Wikipedia too. In my opinion that's because they are not…
Together with Ed Dutton and Helmuth Nyborg: Dutton, E., Nyborg, H., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Europeans Have Larger Testes than Sub-Saharan Africans but Lower Testosterone Levels. Mankind Quarterly,…
There are many studies that look at signs for selection using large genomic datasets. This post provides a selective summary of such studies from 2018 to now, so very recent…
Anon on Reddit writes me: Hey, Emil! I’ve been a fan of your work for a while now. I respect your effort to give a voice to persecuted research directions.…
Doing a lot of background reading on animal ecology, I found this review paper: Lefebvre, L. (2013). Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins.…
Skoyles, J. R. (1999). Human evolution expanded brains to increase expertise capacity, not IQ. Psycoloquy, 10(002). Chicago Skoyles is arguing a rather implausible claim: Why do modern humans have larger…
While I am re-writing our PING study to become a substantial target article, John is sending it to various journals in the mean time to poke about their editorial biases.…
In evolutionary biology, there is a hypothesis about sex ratios: Trivers-Williard hypothesis. It has been noted that males have higher dispersion in their fertility than females have, a finding that…