Darwin's Spectre
Michael R RoseEvolutionary biology, its history, its latest discoveries, and - most importantly - its relevance for health, aging, well being, and understanding everyday life as a human being.
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The Perplexing Human Brain
Modern humans possess a mental capacity that far exceeds the minimal requirements for basic survival. It exceeds the minimal requirements for tool use in hunting and gathering, too. Chimpanzees, for example, are now known to use quite a var...
The Mental Arms Race Amplifier
In the late 1970s, at the University of Sussex, my doctoral research was supervised by John Maynard Smith for a year. One day I went to Maynard Smith’s office to find him frustrated with the mathematical challenges posed by a type of evolut...
The Trouble with Sex
A Theoretical Embarrassment
In the cold, calculating theatre of evolutionary mathematics, sex is a major source of embarrassment. For decades, this Queen of Problems in evolutionary theory has been a simple question of numbers: why would a...
Mainstream Evolutionists Can't Justify Sex
A video introduction to the embarrassing failure of mainstream evolutionary theory to explain the existence of sex. And the worst of this failure has been the puzzle posed by the existence of males among the vast majority of animal species....
Are You Willing to Die for Reductionist Gerontology?
Every day aging claims over 60,000 lives, a ruthless culling. And that is just a fraction of the human suffering caused by the diseases and disabilities associated with our aging. For many, life after the age of 70 is dominated by progressi...
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I am a Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. My mission is to apply evolutionary biology to everyday problems: aging and health, psychology and happiness, even politics and economics.
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