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Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”

Posted on September 18, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

Posted on July 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

Biology/Books/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Readings

Michael Eisen on Wade’s Leaps of Logic

Posted on July 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

As my own review of Nicholas Wade’s book suggested, his treatment of genetics has many deep and fundamental problems. And as my blog post noted, many othe...

Anthropology/Biology/Books/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Readings/Writing

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...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/The Orchid & The Dandelion

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...

Biology/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science

Jerry Coyne Mucks Up and Misreads “Die, Selfish Gene, Die”

Posted on December 6, 2013 by David Dobbs / 27 Comments

Below is a corrective comment I left below Jerry Coyne’s second of two posts (his first is here) critiquing “Die, Selfish Gene, Die,” my recen...

Brains and Behavior/Genetics/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine/Published elsewhere

How Your Friends Get Into Your Genes And Save Your Life – “The Sociable Genome”

Posted on September 3, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’ve a new feature, “The Social Life of Genes,” in Pacific Standard. It involves bees, birds, monkeys, and how our social life and our genes c...

Culture of Science/History of science

How Darwin Seduced the Devout Asa Gray

Posted on June 5, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Below find #7 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s stay at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog here. This ...

Anthropology/Brains and Behavior

The Most Dangerous Words in Genetics

Posted on April 1, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Prof. Steve Jones: ‘Nature or Nurture?’ from The Lost Lectures on Vimeo. “The most dangerous words in genetics,” says geneticist Steve J...

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Do Evolution and Morality Talk Much? David Sloan Wilson & Simon Blackburn Discuss

Posted on June 12, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Morality, even when it doesn’t involve slick trolley problems like killing Whitey, poses a perennial puzzle, particularly in light of evolution. Does huma...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and 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.

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