David Barash
‘Uniquely helpless’: ‘Growing Up Human’ discusses why our species has such an extraordinarily long childhood
Despite all the advice books written for parents about infancy and childhood, there have been surprisingly few treatments of childhood ...
Evolution’s unpredictable dark side: Everything ‘natural’ is not always good
Given a choice, most people gravitate toward the natural over the artificial. After all, natural environments are preferable to garbage ...
Humanzee: Creating lab-produced human-chimpanzee hybrids would be ‘profoundly ethical’
It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a ...
Is altruism just selfishness in disguise?
Evolution proceeds by the differential reproduction of genes, so the challenge is to explain the persistence of a trait that, ...
Humans’ love of watching animals is hardwired
Humans derive pleasure watching animals in zoos, nature and in popular culture. Beyond their uses as food sources and domestic ...
The mysterious genetics of homosexuality
[A] reasonable summary is that, when it comes to male homosexuality, there is almost certainly a direct influence, although probably ...