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		<title>Does Our Paleolithic Past Shape Our Modern Survival Instinct?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/03/15/survival-instinct-paleolithic-past-national-geographic-roundtable/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The latest National Geographic Roundtable Question: Survivor-style television has grown increasingly popular over the years and done a great job of illustrating our brain&#8217;s fascinating built-in survival instinct. What role do you think our ancestral instincts play today in helping us survive, thrive and accomplish our goals? How much of our ancestral survival instincts are &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/03/15/survival-instinct-paleolithic-past-national-geographic-roundtable/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Does Our Paleolithic Past Shape Our Modern Survival Instinct?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tales of the Ex-Apes</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/02/tales-of-the-ex-apes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Marks&#8217; new book is called &#8220;Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution&#8221; I&#8217;ve got to tell you that when I first saw the title of this book, the letters played in my head a bit. Tails of the Ex-Apes. That would be funny because apes don&#8217;t have tails. Or Tales of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/02/tales-of-the-ex-apes/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Tales of the Ex-Apes</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Driving The Patriarchy: Demonic Males, Feminism, and Genetic Determinism</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/07/driving-the-patriarchy-demonic/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. &#8220;Drives&#8221; is a nicely vague term that we can all understand the meaning of. Thirst and hunger are &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/07/driving-the-patriarchy-demonic/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Driving The Patriarchy: Demonic Males, Feminism, and Genetic Determinism</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Falsehoods:  Human Universals</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/26/falsehoods-human-universals/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Falsehoods II]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are human universals. There, I said it. Now give me about a half hour to explain why this is both correct and a Falsehood. But first, some background and definition. Most simply defined, a human universal is a trait, behavior or cultural feature that we find in all human societies. Men are always on &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/26/falsehoods-human-universals/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Falsehoods:  Human Universals</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why do women shop and men hunt?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/12/why-do-women-shop-and-men-hunt/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Or, when the hunting season is closed, watch teh game (the guys), or when there are no sales, admire each other&#8217;s shoes (the gals)? This is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the &#8220;evolutionary psychology&#8221; argument linking behaviors that evolved in our species during the long slog known as The &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/12/why-do-women-shop-and-men-hunt/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why do women shop and men hunt?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A good day for birds.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/25/a-good-day-for-birds/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Notes from the North Country]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was not an intensive bird watching day. This was a day driving to the cabin, sitting in the cabin writing, looking out the window, driving to run an errand, going to town for dinner, sitting in the cabin looking out the window some more, etc. But the birds insisted on performing. So I thought &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/25/a-good-day-for-birds/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A good day for birds.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Race, Gender, IQ and Nature</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/18/race-gender-iq-and-nature/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nature, the publishing group, not the Mother, has taken Darwin&#8217;s 200th as an opportunity to play the race card (which always sells copy) and went ahead and published two opposing views on this question: &#8220;Should scientists study race and IQ? The answers are Yes, argued by Stephen Cici and Wendy Williams of the Dept of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/18/race-gender-iq-and-nature/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Race, Gender, IQ and Nature</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is a disease?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/12/what-is-a-disease/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cell Biology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Disease&#8221; is a big word. I&#8217;d like to address this question by focusing on the difference, or lack of difference, between a poison, a disease, and a yummy thing to eat. It turns out that they may all be the same. Yet different.Phenylketonuria (fee-null-keet-o-noo-ria), mercifully also known as &#8220;PKU&#8221; (pee &#8211; kay &#8211; you) is &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/12/what-is-a-disease/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What is a disease?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Myers &#8211; Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/08/the-myers-rue-debate-and-why-t/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Creationism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last night, the Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists club (C.A.S.H.) presented a debate between PZ Myers and Loyal Rue on the question: Can religion and science co-exist? I witnessed this event and would like to tell you what happened. I want to begin with a message to PZ Myers: Thank you, PZ, for your service! &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/08/the-myers-rue-debate-and-why-t/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Myers &#8211; Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Study Suggests Increased Rate of  Human Adaptive Evolution</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/10/there-is-a-new-paper/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a new paper, just coming out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that explores the idea that humans have undergone an increased rate of evolution over the last several tens of thousands of years.By an increased rate of evolution, the authors mean an increased rate of adaptive change in the genome. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/10/there-is-a-new-paper/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Study Suggests Increased Rate of  Human Adaptive Evolution</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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