Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”
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
My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...
Michael Eisen on Wade’s Leaps of Logic
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...
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Whites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”
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...
Hard-Wired to NOT Be Hard-Wired – Pat Clarkin on Our Marvelous Flexibility
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...
Jerry Coyne Mucks Up and Misreads “Die, Selfish Gene, Die”
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...
How Your Friends Get Into Your Genes And Save Your Life – “The Sociable Genome”
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...
How Darwin Seduced the Devout Asa Gray
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 ...
The Most Dangerous Words in Genetics
Prof. Steve Jones: ‘Nature or Nurture?’ from The Lost Lectures on Vimeo. “The most dangerous words in genetics,” says geneticist Steve J...
Do Evolution and Morality Talk Much? David Sloan Wilson & Simon Blackburn Discuss
Morality, even when it doesn’t involve slick trolley problems like killing Whitey, poses a perennial puzzle, particularly in light of evolution. Does huma...