For many decades now intellectuals, policy makers, humanitarian organizations and environmentalists have put time, money and effort into wor...

Published in this month's Animal Behaviour. British spelling. Behavioural biologists do not agree on what constitutes behaviour Dan...

The size of any population is determined by births, deaths, immigrations and emigrations. Change in population= Births-Deaths+Immigrations-E...

Yesterday I submitted a paper to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Like most high profile journals they have strict page ...

I am working on submitting a paper to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They ask that I suggest editors and reviewers who...

The University of California at Berkeley has long claimed, with reasonable justification, to be the world's top public University. The U...

The paper I wrote with two colleagues on how biologists define the word behavior should be coming out in Animal Behaviour in June or July. ...

It has long been known that male mammals, including male humans, are physiologically capable of lactating. Screw with a man's physiology...

Well, duh... Next they'll discover that Homo floresiensis were fond of tea cakes and lived in holes with circular green doors.

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...