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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
The Evolution of Bob
I’ve been waiting for years for my friend Bob Wright to finish his damn book The Evolution of God. Well, he’s finally done it, and it’s inspired the Yale psychologist Paul Bloom to write a rave review, which made the cover of tomorrow’s New York Time Book Review.
I just finished Bob’s book a couple days [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Food, Sex and War on Bloggingheads.tv
Did you know guys dig food more than sex? Let me be more specific: young men in some tribal societies will happily marry an elderly post-menopausal widow as long as she can cook well. Having a cooked meal ready for him at the end of the day frees him up for hunting or just hanging [...]