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		<title>The &#8220;Big Man&#8221;: Male linguistic deficit and female linguistic superiority</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/10/18/the-big-man-male-linguistic-deficit-and-female-linguistic-superiority/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is hard for a person who thinks about, knows a little about, evolution to reconcile the seeming contradiction that females should be smarter than males, particularly in the language arts, knowing what we know about brain development in mammals. This is because, while there are great writers and speech makers among women, there are &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/10/18/the-big-man-male-linguistic-deficit-and-female-linguistic-superiority/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The &#8220;Big Man&#8221;: Male linguistic deficit and female linguistic superiority</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using Nature to Solve Problems</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/09/04/using-nature-to-solve-problems/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In which I participate in Producer Wes&#8217;s project &#8220;Advice Wanted.&#8221; Any questions?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Human Behavior Genetic Or Learned?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/15/is-human-behavior-genetic-or-learned/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine that there is a trait observed among people that seems to occur more frequently in some families and not others. One might suspect that the trait is inherited genetically. Imagine researchers looking for the genetic underpinning of this trait and at first, not finding it. What might you conclude? It could be reasonable to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/15/is-human-behavior-genetic-or-learned/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is Human Behavior Genetic Or Learned?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How long is a human generation?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/14/how-long-is-a-human-generation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How long is a generation, you ask? Short Answer: 25 years, but a generation ago it was 20 years. Long answer: It depends on what you mean by generation. In US-biased Western culture there is a Biological Generation, the Dynamic Generation, the somewhat different Familial Generation, what is sometimes called a Cultural Generation but that &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/14/how-long-is-a-human-generation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How long is a human generation?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Punch Covid In The Face with Money</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/12/31/punch-covid-in-the-face-with-money/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The global, and American, research programs in health and biology over recent decades have given us inadequate tools to understand the Covid virus as fully and quickly as I think we could have. We need: &#8230;more basic research on viruses, never mind the virus &#8230;more basic research on infections, never mind the pathogen, the host, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/12/31/punch-covid-in-the-face-with-money/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Punch Covid In The Face with Money</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Always Have Dover</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/17/well-always-have-dover/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lewis Black, the gruff comedian, has a shtick about evolution. At one point he intones that he carries a fossil with him, and when he runs into a creationist, he holds this trilobite up, pointing it at them, and yells (he&#8217;s always yelling), &#8220;Fossil!&#8221; Then, if they still don&#8217;t get it, he throws it over &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/17/well-always-have-dover/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">We&#8217;ll Always Have Dover</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Encyclopedia Of Animals: Time to upgrade the science shelf in your library</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/11/23/encyclopedia-of-animals-time-to-upgrade-the-science-shelf-in-your-library/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, I had an encyclopedia of animals. I cherished it, read it several times. For a long time, until I was in middle school, I knew more about animals than anyone else I knew because I had read that book. I also used it as a jumping off point to learn &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/11/23/encyclopedia-of-animals-time-to-upgrade-the-science-shelf-in-your-library/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Encyclopedia Of Animals: Time to upgrade the science shelf in your library</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Superlative Beauty and Beautiful Superlatives in Nature: Books</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/14/superlative-beauty-and-beautiful-superlatives-in-nature-books/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 11:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Superlative: The Biology of Extremes is almost as extreme, or shall we say, hopeful, in its marketing-cover claims as the animals discussed are outlandish. If the cure for cancer was going to be found in a shark, we would have already found it. But despite what the book promises on its cover, Matthew D. LaPlante&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/14/superlative-beauty-and-beautiful-superlatives-in-nature-books/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Superlative Beauty and Beautiful Superlatives in Nature: Books</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Best Children&#8217;s Book on Human Evolution</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/06/06/best-childrens-book-on-human-evolution/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 20:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aside from evolutionary theory itself, the teaching of Human evolution involves physiology and reproductive biology, behavioral biology, genetics, and the fossil record itself with details of a concomitant history. And finally, there is a children&#8217;s book that addresses the latter, in amazing detail! There are very few good (or even bad) children&#8217;s books about evolution, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/06/06/best-childrens-book-on-human-evolution/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Best Children&#8217;s Book on Human Evolution</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time itself as a resource that drives evolution</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/02/06/time-itself-as-a-resource-that-drives-evolution/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many of the key revolutions, or at least, overhauls, in biological thinking have come as a result of the broad realization that a thentofore identified variable is not simply background, but central and causative. I&#8217;m sure everyone always thought, since first recognized, that if genes are important than good genes would be good. Great, even. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/02/06/time-itself-as-a-resource-that-drives-evolution/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Time itself as a resource that drives evolution</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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