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Whites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”

Posted on July 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 31 Comments

Today the New York Times Book Review published its advance online version of my review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance. (It will appear in print th...

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Hard-Wired to NOT Be Hard-Wired – Pat Clarkin on Our Marvelous Flexibility

Posted on June 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

  Humans are hard-wired not to be hard-wired. That phrase, drawn from Ken Weiss, is perhaps the simplest of the many ways that Patrick Clarkin tries to con...

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We Got Your Real-Time Open-Science Anthropology Right Here

Posted on November 21, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

One of my favorite things this week: John Hawks on the magnificent open-science real-time-science excavation of a newly discovered human fossil dig going on rig...

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Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness

Posted on July 27, 2012 by David Dobbs / 14 Comments

Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs takes another look at the causes of tragedies like the one in Aurora.

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Wonderful Horrible Histories, the Music Vid Versions

Posted on May 5, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

One of the pleasures of living in the UK, where I’m two-thirds of the way through a year here, is the stellar quality of some of the television programmin...

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Bonobos, Chimpanzees, and Nasty, Peaceful Humans

Posted on April 21, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Apparently it’s Eric Michael Johnson week here at Neuron Culture. Last Friday Johnson, who studies evolutionary anthropology and the history of science, w...

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The Allure of Gay Cavemen

Posted on April 15, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Guest post by Eric Michael Johnson The following guest post by Eric Michael Johnson is part of the Primate Diaries in Exile blog tour. You can follow other stop...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For occasional reading recommendations in my occasional newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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