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• Evolutionary Psychology: Bad Science, Bad Journalism, or Both?

  Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 4:58 PM By Rachael Larimore
  
  Our evolutionary psychology discussion has had me on the lookout for stories that seem particularly ridiculous. And on Fox News today, the morning hosts mentioned a study that purports to show that gentlemen preferred blondes as far back as the Ice Age. Read More...
  Filed under: blondes, evolutionary psychology, gender issues, women and science

• Why 9/11 Means More Daughters

  Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 3:23 PM By Morgan Smith
  
  If a woman's stressed during pregnancy will she not have a son? A piece in the new issue of the Economist suggests a connection between maternal stress and a baby's gender. Here's the theory: First World women are 5 percent more likely to have a male Read More...
  Filed under: evolutionary psychology, gender issues, pregnancy

• Hard-Wire This!

  Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:01 PM By Dana Stevens
  
  I just had to join in with a "hear, hear" for stamping out evolutionary psychology (at least in its pop-science incarnation.). Now that I have a child of my own, I'm constantly eavesdropping on playground conversations about which behaviors are "hard-wired" Read More...
  Filed under: evolutionary psychology, gender issues, parenting

• Evolutionary Strippers

  Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:42 AM By Emily Yoffe
  
  Meghan , Anne , Here's another recent study to add to the pile of questionable evolutionary psychology findings about women's sexual signaling—the evo psychs are obsessed with proving that women on their fertile days actually do experience estrus like Read More...
  Filed under: evolutionary psychology, gender issues, sexuality, strippers

• The Utter Phoniness of Evolutionary Psychology

  Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 11:19 PM By Anne Applebaum
  
  It's taken a long time, but at last— thank you for contributing , Meghan!—evolutionary psychology is being revealed as the psuedoscience it usually is, at least by the time it reaches the newspaper columns and the conversations around the water cooler. Read More...
  Filed under: evolutionary psychology, gender issues

• Evolutionary Psychology Strikes Again

  Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 4:58 PM By Meghan O'Rourke
  
  The trouble with evolutionary psychology is that there are no (or few) ways of testing its theorems. With enough ingenuity on the part of the researcher, nearly any finding about gender can be twisted to suit the evolutionary lens. Prime example, from Read More...
  Filed under: evolutionary psychology, gender issues

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