Author Archives: Glenn Geher
10 Human Universals that Should be Fully Embraced (… or Appreciating the Flip Side of Diversity)
Diversity in all its incarnations is awesome and beautiful. It’s the spice of life. And in modern times, educational institutions have become enlightened regarding the importance of embracing, understanding, respecting, and appreciating diversity. And this trend in modern education – … Continue reading
Top 10 Evolutionary Mismatches: How Modern Humans are Living in the Monkey House
In 2012, after being home to various classes of primates for some 100+ years, the renowned Monkey House at the Bronx Zoo closed down – and the current primate residents at the Zoo reside in habitats that are designed to … Continue reading
Don’t Look Down! How I REALLY Learned about Fear of Heights as an Adaptation
Why are people scared of high roller coasters, air travel, and walking on the edges of cliffs? In short, such a fear is, in the parlance of evolutionary psychology, “adaptive.” Fear of heights is a human universal – and can … Continue reading
Thinking Like an Anthropologist from Mars: Crucial for Good Human Science
Don’t worry, just as I promised you recently that the odds of an all-out zombie apocalypse are very low, I seriously doubt that there are any anthropologists from Mars among our ranks. This said, as a behavioral scientist, I think it may actually be very useful to think like an anthropologist from Mars. And this blog explains why! Continue reading
What I Learned in Psychology Class: Making the Connection Between Theory and Human Behavior
As an undergraduate student in psychology at the University of Connecticut years ago, I found the major interesting yet somewhat disjointed. In one class you’d learn some interesting but kind of random facts about human behavior – in a different … Continue reading
If You can Read This, You are a Darwinian Success Story
As a psychology professor, I do lots of different things in my job. I help students register for classes, I teach classes on this and that, I talk with students about how to achieve their career goals, I conduct research … Continue reading
The Evolutionary Psychology of Little League – Darwin Meets America
In reality, to do the topic of the evolutionary psychology of the Little League experience justice would require a full book – and perhaps a multi-volume series. It’s all in there. Just a sampling of the evolutionarily relevant concepts (see … Continue reading
Howard Bloom on the Evolution of Sex
Don’t miss this rare public appearance by world-renowned writer and thinker, Howard Bloom – author of The God Problem, The Lucifer Principle and more (www.howardbloom.net). WHAT: Sex and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (a talk regarding Bloom’s thoughts on The … Continue reading
The Evolutionary Psychology of the Zombie Apocalypse
Don’t worry – as a statistician, I put the likelihood of an all-out zombie apocalypse at very very close to zero – seriously, no reason to panic! This said, one of my current students, Paul, just engaged me in a … Continue reading
Evolutionary Psychology’s Expansion – Our Promise to Darwin
When Charles Darwin (1859) articulated his theory of natural selection and described how natural forces are responsible for the beauty, diversity, and origins of life, he was thinking big. And his thinking was integrative. In his voyages around the world, … Continue reading
