Starting on June 7th 2021 I’m going to be teaching my second seminar on the science of sex differences, an eternal flame in the culture wars and a debate I’ve engaged with myself. IR…| DIANAVERSE
People often ask me for evolutionary psychology reading recommendations. I taught a couple of seminar series on evolutionary psychology for laypeople. Below see my seminar welcome email plus highli…| DIANAVERSE
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings by Randy Nesse examines emotions and mental illness from an evolutionary psychology perspective. I was really excited about reading this book because Nesse’s Why…| DIANAVERSE
This blog first appeared on my Sentientist blog a few years back. Since then, Geoffrey Miller, developed these ideas more and gave a talk on how sexually transmitted pathogens could influence behav…| DIANAVERSE
When you ask people what experiences have shaped them, they commonly mention being bullied at school or an unkind offhanded remark a parent or teacher made. In my experience, people are much less l…| DIANAVERSE
I wrote this essay a few years ago for a futurist publication after I gave a talk about the future of in vitro meat – now smartly rebranded as clean meat. Lately clean meat has been in the ne…| DIANAVERSE
I’ve been married to Geoffrey Miller, just over a year. Our first anniversary was November 29th, 2020. In this first year we honeymooned in China, Indonesia and Singapore, locked down togethe…| DIANAVERSE
The funnest conference I have ever attended was the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine meeting (ZAMM) back in 2018. Spearheaded by Athena Aktipis, there were talks on everything from first aid to Vodou. Ba…| DIANAVERSE
A couple of months ago I wrote a piece called “Practical Veganism”. I didn’t choose the title. I don’t think anyone likes “the v word” but it was a bit of a tongue in cheek title …| DIANAVERSE
This is a lightly edited version of an article I wrote that first appeared in Jacobite. I had a great conversation about this article and evolutionary psychology more generally (link here) with Joh…| DIANAVERSE