Critics of evolutionary psychology often levy the accusation that the field is tantamount to biological determinism. Countless evolutionists have explained away this astonishingly false concern and ...

With reference to Isobel Owen’s article “Are women really better investors than men?” (FT Money, May 4): it disheartens me to see that zealous (and much needed) calls for more inclusion, diversity and ...

Sadly Lady Gaga, the manic new queen of reinvention, has fallen prey to the fatalistic doctrine of biological determinism. Earlier this month she boasted to Vogue: "I am the excuse to explore your ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my friend Stephen Jay Gould, acknowledging his faults but also saying that I thought him a great force for moral good. The reason why I wrote was because, just ...

"Fat people are different from normal weight or slim people. Fat people are different even at a cellular level." The late Walter J. Kempner, MD of Duke University Medical Center announced this one ...

I’m a bit late on this; following intradisciplinary feuding among academic anthropologists usually isn’t a high priority, but this is an interesting story. Marshall Sahlins, a prominent anthropologist ...