Without having done extensive checking, I would guess that Wikipedia is the only encyclopedia in the world in which the section on primate t...

"Niche conservatism is the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological characteristics." (PDF) But why do species have thi...

The paper I'm writing now is on sex-biased longevity in primates. I'm trying to understand why in some species the males live longer...

Last month as we drove up to her mom's house, Iris and I were talking about what sorts of non-profits we think really use their money we...

In a couple of weeks I'll be attending the conference of the Population Association of America. It will be a bunch of demographers. Most...

My wife and I (both writing theses this spring) and two cats share a very small studio apartment. One way we make maximum use of the space i...

The conversation usually goes something like this: Me- I'm allergic to caffeine. It makes me get a terrible headache, then get really sl...

I've been thinking on an off for several years about the concept of 'elastic replacement.' That is term I made up to mean when t...

Writing a paper is an iterative process. Figure out what my point is, start writing, change my point, adjust my writing, repeat. The process...

Fertility and fecundity are two closely related concepts. One means the physiological state of being able to have offspring, the other means...

Ive spent much of the last couple of weeks working on a paper on sex-biased longevity in primates. Here is a draft of a portion of an intro...

Walking back to the Valley Life Sciences Building this afternoon, I passed a large tour group of high-school students and their parents bei...

I have spent most of my time recently writing papers for publication, and I have come to a realization. It is one of those realizations wher...

I gave a draft to one of my mentors, and it came back covered in red. Comments, suggested edits, deletions, additions, objections, pointing ...

The NYTimes has a recent article about the current academic job market. In two words, it sucks. Professors who thought they could afford to...

My friend Terry is a bioengineer, as well as a part time futurist. Much of what people in his field work on (as judged by what Terry talks a...

For much of the last year my life and schedule have revolved around daily rotifer census. How often I go to campus, at what times, when I ha...

It finally occurred to me that the paper I have been writing on the evolution of post-fertile survival (a.k.a. post-reproductive lifespan) r...

I've often vented about how terrible science journalism in this country is. The journalists never seem to understand the science they ar...

The first draft of the abstract of a first chapter of my thesis! None of this will survive the editing process. Human females have the unusu...