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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Promiscuity: members of both sexes have multiple partners (in humans this is sometimes called polyamory)
Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
The fascinating new field of evolutionary psychology, or the study of genetic conditioning on behavior, traces our most deeply ingrained instinctual impulses and connects almost all of them to our capacity to survive and to propagate our genes. In fact, propagation of the genes seems to be the driving force underlying most of what we say, do, and
... See moreCatherine Ingram • Passionate Presence
The evolution of our strange, extremely other-obsessed brains has brought with it weird side-effects. Human obsession with faces is so fierce we see them almost anywhere: in fire; in clouds; down spooky corridors; in toast. We sense minds everywhere too. Just as the brain models the outside world it also builds models of minds. This skill, which is
... See moreWill Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
It’s universally accepted by those that study the dynamics between men and women, that the male sexual strategy is unlimited access to unlimited women. Whereas the female sexual strategy is open hypergamy. What that means is men want to scatter their seed far and wide. As men produce millions of sperm every month, those seeds are both ridiculously
... See moreSteve From Accounting • The Unplugged Alpha: The No Bullsh*t Guide To Winning With Women & Life
The goal of my “The Babbling Idiot and the Tribe” essay is to unpack and expand on the book behind the Stoned Ape Theory meme.