Cancer might be a failed response to renegade mitochondria

Given a hundred to a thousand mitochondria per cell, each with prokaryotic ‘naked’ DNA that is highly susceptible to muta- tion without repair (see Penta et al., 2001; Verschoor, 2013 for review), cells containing both ...

How Brain Shutdown Explains Core Support for Trump and Clinton

We’ve evolved a capacity to circumvent rational and independent thinking to maintain social bonds, which explains core support for Trump and Clinton. What a choice! More than 150 million natural-born citizens old enough to be President of ...

Eusocial Coprophagous Diploids – Who is Reproducing?

Troyer (1984) has put forth the insightful hypothesis that sociality among herbivores who digest plant structural tissue has been given impetus by the close contact required to exchange obligate gut symbionts. This article appeared in ...

Deceiving Down : Conjectures on the Management of Subordinate Status

From:Self-Deception: An Adaptive MechanismJoan S. Lockard and Delroy L. Paulhus, Eds.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1988. I am grateful to the late Erving Goffman for encouragement, advice, and inspiration. MAKING THE FOOT FIT THE SHOE ...