Reaction Norm

Michael tries to convict Patricia and Charles, and all the viewers/listeners, that EVERYTHING is genetic (sort of).

Patricia, Michael and Charles discuss the evolutionary function of anger and how those adaptations are playing themselves out in the modern social and political world.

Patricia, Michael and Charles discuss their pet theories about what makes us human.

The RN team is fully reunited for this lively discussion of cultural appropriation: when it's a legitimate criticism and when it's a confused misrepresentation of the evolution of human behavior.

Patricia and Charles have a look at the anti-vaccination movement from an evolutionary perspective.

On the occasion of Reaction Norm's 13th episode, Charles and Michael talk about the evolutionary pros and cons of superstition.

For the first time in many weeks, the full Reaction Norm team is reunited. This week we discuss the domestication of the Siberian fox and whether there's lessons to be drawn from that research for better understanding human beings.

Patricia and Michael go back to a reliable source of science nonsense in the BBC. Has science been wrong? Are women just as prone to casual sex as are men? Is claiming otherwise just patriarchy masquerading as science?

In this episode, Patricia is back and discusses with Michael the complications that arise in criminal justice theory with the increasing recognition of the importance of genetic and biological determination of human behaviors. How can we presume to either rehabilitate or punish if individual criminals are in some ultimate way incapable of having done other than they did?

While Patricia is away again, Charles and Michael discuss whether the justice system should be thought of as eugenic.