Memes, Natural Selection, and Competing SocietiesNatural selection drives human population. Back in the hunter-gatherer period, the strongest, most skillful hunters were able to feed more babies than weaker men and enjoyed greater reproductive success. Women tried to attract strong men so that they, ... |
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Evil-utionFor centuries, men and women have passed around ideas. Some ideas such as the New England axiom "plant corn when the oak leaves are the size of mouse ears" or Cato's "Carthage must be destroyed" have stood the test of time while other ideas like "the wo... |
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When it Comes to Mating, it's Courtship or CaninesA major challenge to received wisdom on human evolution made the news recently. The Wall Street Journal reported on October 2 that a fossil named "Ardi," which has been dated more than a million years earlier than the much-discussed "Lucy" skeleton, sug... |
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