Saturday, April 23, 2022

Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others

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Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others. Lee Alan Dugatkin. The University of Chicago Pr...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVIII

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVIII [...] Your Honor the young person of sensibility & beauty to whom I ask for mercy,/Su Señoría...

The Autodidactic Universe: An approach to cosmology in which the Universe learns its own physical laws

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The Autodidactic Universe. Stephon Alexander, William J. Cunningham, Jaron Lanier, Lee Smolin, Stefan Stanojevic, Michael W. Toomey, Dave We...

In high-income countries, relation of women’s labor force participation & fertility is now positive; father contribution rates to child-raising are more important for fertility; & fathers seem most interested in children in Norway, the least in Russia

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The Economics of Fertility: A New Era. Matthias Doepke, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermann & Michèle Tertilt. NBER Working Paper 29948. Ap...

21% of autosomal DNA in eastern chimpanzees derives from western chimpanzee introgression & all four chimpanzee lineages share a common ancestor about 987,000 y ago (much earlier than thought), with a male reproductive & dispersal skew

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Estimating bonobo (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) evolutionary history from nucleotide site patterns. Colin M. Brand et al. ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Parental sexual orientation and gender identity do not in themselves determine success in parenting or child development: Sexual & gender minority parents & their children have shown remarkable resilience, even in the face of many challenges

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Parental sexual orientation, parental gender identity, and the development of children. Charlotte J. Patterson. Advances in Child Developmen...

Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in personal care products

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Moshary, Sarah and Tuchman, Anna and Bhatia, Natasha, Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in C...

Poorly governing ethnic parties persist because core supporters remain loyal in the face of poor governance because of dignity concerns, and are most likely to forgive ethnic parties for failing to address bread-and-butter issues

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Malik, Mashail, Discrimination & Defiant Pride: How the Demand for Dignity Can Create Slack for Poor Governance (February 24, 2022). SSR...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics: Female advantages in writing, male advantages at higher math ability levels

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The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics. Matthew R.Reynolds, Daniel B. Hajovsky, Jacqueline M. Caemme...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Three accounts of the cognitive abilities that facilitated the emergence and transmission of cumulative culture in the recent hominin lineage

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Henrich, Heyes and Tomasello on the Cognitive Foundations of Cultural Evolution. Cecilia Heyes. September 13 2021. To appear in: The Oxford ...

Very small advantage of the religious: When comparing a maximally nonreligious atheist group against several maximally religiously affiliated groups, atheists largely showed health parity

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Throw BABE Out With the Bathwater? Canadian Atheists are No Less Healthy than the Religious. David Speed. Journal of Religion and Health, Ap...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVII

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVII [...] Your Honor whose being so far from this humble being makes Your follower crushed by aprehension...

Sexual attraction to men as a risk factor for eating disorders: the role of mating expectancies and drive for thinness

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Sexual attraction to men as a risk factor for eating disorders: the role of mating expectancies and drive for thinness. Pedro María Ruiz de ...