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The contradictions of polygyny
Chief Makwira and his wives, Malawi, 1903 (Wikicommons). Older men had first priority. Younger men could gain access to women only through war or adultery. In my last column, I reviewed the findings of...
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The missing hour of sleep
Rêverie, Adrien de Witte (1850-1935), WikicommonsAfrican Americans sleep on average almost an hour less than do Euro Americans. The two groups have mean sleep times of 6.05 hours and 6.85 hours. This...
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The fellowship instinct
Grace Fellowship Assembly of God, Bloomington, Indiana – Fellowship is what primarily draws people to religion (Wikicommons - Vmenkov). Religiosity is moderately heritable—25 to 45% according to twin...
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Evolution of long head hair
Swan princess, John Bauer (1882-1918). Human head hair is of relatively recent origin, reaching incredible lengths in some groups but not in others. I've published an article on the evolution of long...
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A pauper's death
The Pauper, 1894-1895, Theodor Kittelsen. This and other works by Kittelsen have appeared on Norwegian black metal albums Black metal is a musical subgenre that grew out of death metal and, more...
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Is "sick" the right word?
Ted Bundy, 1978, State Archives of Florida (Wikicommons). Outwardly charming but zero concern for others. Is sociopathy an illness? We often think so ... to the point that the word "sick" has taken on...
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A modern myth
Your blood group cannot reliably identify your ethnicity, your race ... or even your species (Wikicommons, Etan Tal). What sort of ideas will guide our elites twenty years from now? You can find out...
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A look back over 2015
Marion-Maréchal Le Pen (Wikicommons - Remi JDN). This year, she received 45% of the popular vote in one of France's regions, as a Front National candidate. We must act now to bring anti-globalist...
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Farewell to Henry
Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung infection. This is one of the risks of getting...
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Notre-Dame-de-Compassion, Paris. Women have more affective empathy than do men, an indication that it originated served to bind a mother to her young children. To different degrees, and in different...
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An idea abandoned by its father
Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula) (Credit: Charles J. Sharp). Five mating pairs were taken from one island to another, and over the next thirty generations the transplanted population became...
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Tales from old bones
Around three thousand years ago Bantu began to spread east and south from the Nigeria/Cameroun border, eventually replacing the original inhabitants of eastern and southern Africa. Those people no...
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The canary in the coal mine?
Magazine rack in a Japanese store (Wikicommons - Corpse Reviver)Hugh Hefner's death has ended an era that actually ended around the turn of the millennium. Gone are the days of porn in limited supply....
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The unexplored confound
First page of an underground porn comic, c. 1930s (Wikicommons). Pornography is now much more available and better in quality.My last post presented a German study whose findings suggest that prolonged...
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Virtual polygyny?
Polygyny is accepted to varying degrees around the world. In some countries it is permitted by law (dark blue) or by customary law (medium blue). Or the law may permit polygyny if the marriage has been...
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Why they can and we can't
Emmanuel Macron (Wikicommons: French government)This week, Bill 62 became law in Québec. People now have to show their faces when giving or receiving public services. And that last term is interpreted...
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The bad boys on the block
Demonstration at Warsaw University, May 1988. The dominoes began to fall a year before the collapse that most of us remember (Wikicommons: Rafał Werbanowski)The sky outside was pitch-black, and the...
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Why the dominoes fall
Election Poster for the Lega dei Ticinesi (Italian canton of Switzerland), an "isolationist, national conservative party" (Wiki). Currently, it holds 21 out of 90 seats in the Ticino legislature...
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The next two to three years
Election posters for the radical nationalist SRS (Srpska radikalna stranka), (Wikicommons: Micki)A nationalist bloc of nations has come into being in eastern and central Europe—Poland, Czechia,...
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Terra Nostra, for how long?
Giorgia Meloni, president of Terra Nostra. (Wikicommons: Niccolò Caranti)A nationalist bloc of nations now extends across much of eastern and central Europe, but Italy seems like another world. In the...
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