We show a lot of respect for science today. To back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. It seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. We can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. Of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. Nonetheless, epistemological jus...

Over the last half century, anthropologists have vigorously debated adaptive motivations underlying food acquisition choices and food-sharing among hunter-gatherer groups. Numerous explanations been proposed to account for high-levels of generosity in food-sharing, including self- family-provisioning, reciprocity, tolerated theft pro-social- or skill-signaling. However, few studies asked forage...

organophosphate (op) compounds are frequently used agorchemicals for deliberate self-harm in some parts of the world resulting in high mortality and morbidity. pralidoxime (2pam) is the most widely used and trialed oxime for treatment of op poisoning. there have been variations over the results of trials using 2pam for op poisoning. 2pam therapy has led to favorable outcomes in some studies, wh...

No single question has been more central to our understanding of sex than the question of why a species reproduces sexually when asexual reproduction avoids the twofold cost of males. Surprisingly, an equally fundamental question has received virtually no attention at all. That is, why are there no triparental species in which an offspring is composed of the genetic material of three individual...