Evo and Proud

Alexander the Great’s conquests, and later the Roman Empire’s expansion, transformed the cultural landscape by merging different peoples int...

About 15 years ago, I received an e-mail from a specialist in Jewish studies, Dr. David Goldenberg, who had read an article of mine and want...

In my last two posts, I argued against two widespread truisms: 1. The human genome is 99.9% the same in all people. 2. If we look at the 0.1...

How much of the genome varies within our species? The question remained unanswered in my last post. Hawks et al (2007) have recently estima...

There has been much comment on a recent finding that human evolution has accelerated over the past 40,000 years, i.e., the period during whi...

For the past twenty years, a key concept in evolutionary psychology has been the ‘environment of evolutionary adaptedness’ (EEA). This is th...

It was long thought that human genetic evolution pretty much ended with the advent of culture. As Paul Ehrlich (2000, p. 63) wrote: The evol...