Human evolution

Society has defeated the family

All societies exist in a tense relationship with families. Current high-tech society is the first to win that battle outright.

Apr 9 •

Feminism is just an ape alliance

Since the beginning of history, alliances between men have built on more than maleness. Women need to follow that example and build alliances on more…

Jan 29 •

Building Utopia: Endurable version

Designing a society that is pleasant today is not enough. It has to be pleasant to our descendants too

Jan 23 •

Behind the fertility crisis, there is an army of worried mothers

Human females did not necessarily evolve to want many children. They evolved to worry about the children they have.

Jan 16 •

Both sexes have to be oppressed

Kind of a book review of Warriors and Worriers by Joyce Benenson

Jan 8 •

Capitalism put an end to systematic warfare

There are still wars. But war is no longer the only way for producers to compete with each other.

Dec 11, 2023 •

Hell is other people - Why individualism shrinks the next generation

Humans evolved to take care of children cooperatively. Small household size forces us to break with that tradition, with low fertility as a result

Nov 22, 2023 •

Are modern children born too late?

Being a modern woman is unnatural. For that reason, deliberately unnatural childbirth might be the best way forward.

Oct 22, 2023 •

The price of a woman

Cynically speaking, women are producers of children. The demand for children roughly decides the market price of a wife

Jul 28, 2023 •

Is child murder the cause of greater female linguistic ability?

Showing off is the main purpose of unusually high linguistic ability. During human history, males and females needed to show off at very different ages

Jul 7, 2023 •

A natural history of consent

The third and last part of a mini-series on the evolutionary psychology of sexual coercion. The first two posts were written from the female side. This…

Jun 19, 2023 •

Why are women so bad at resisting rape?

The ubiquity of marital rape throughout history explains why women did not evolve an instinct to violently resist all rapists

Jun 10, 2023 •

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