This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I used to be tough on Stephen Jay Gould, the ...

Critics of evolutionary psychology often levy the accusation that the field is tantamount to biological determinism. Countless evolutionists have explained away this astonishingly false concern and ...

The bottom line that all of us have emphasized is that biological determinism is not the same thing as biological influence. Although historians must not continue to deny the latter, we have to ...

"Fat people are different from normal weight or slim people. Fat people are different even at a cellular level." The late Walter J. Kempner, MD of Duke University Medical Center announced this one ...