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Female Infanticide and Sexual Selection

On one side towers the pill, the 60s symbol of goddess, placing sexuality in the control of women and providing females the power to decide when to make love and if they will be fertile. On the other...

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Regulation

“Humans and chimps are almost identical in structural gens, yet differ markedly in form and behavior. This paradox can be resolved by invoking a small genetic difference with profound...

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Minnesota Somali Autism: Geography and Light

When I was a kid, my sisters and I would place a marble in the middle of the dining room linoleum floor and watch it begin rolling toward the hallway. Quickly, it would pick up speed, pass through the...

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Gravity and Friction: The Physics of Social Change

I use an image to explain the relationship between different activists’ intervention philosophies. The image is the teeter-totter. On both the left and right, political activists engage tactics that...

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Autism’s Female

Autism researchers such as Simon Baron-Cohen have noted a pattern. The mother’s testosterone levels influence the likelihood of a child having autism. The higher the mother’s testosterone level, the...

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Neoteny, Affection and Dependency

For over 120 years, theorists have been aware of heterochronic principles in evolution. Stephen J. Gould has almost single-handedly kept the flame alive. Gould is dead. Evolutionists specializing in...

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Conservative Left

As a Left organizer, it’s not about making things happen but about appraising conditions in order to be in the right place in the right time, with the right tools, with the right allies, with robust...

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Introduction to the Theory of Waves

Ten years ago, I was exploring the possible origin of human culture in tribal societies driven by rhythmic dance and music. Tribal societies are on rare occasions characterized by paternal anonymity,...

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Elegant Solution: Estrogen, Autism and Evolution

It seems too elegant to be true, but I’ve become enamored of the possibility. Heterochronic theory, the study of the effects of rate and timing on maturation and development, takes the work of several...

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Testosterone Rate, Estrogen Timing: Heterochrony, Autism and Diet

I’m still trying to grasp the concept that testosterone and estrogen and their associated hormones are together managing ontological, social and biological evolution by adjusting to changes in the...

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