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Standing Up for Sexual Selection in Human Evolution
Evolution by natural selection as set out in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species from 1859 is often thought of as a constant and bloody struggle for survival. Here, living organisms are engaged in an incessant fight to survive long enough to reproduce and over the long stretches of geological time, species adapt to their environment so as to enhance … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged bipedalism, Evolution, human, selection, sexual
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My Body, My Abortion
If I were ever going to regret my long-ago decision to have an illegal abortion, it would have been on the ride home afterward. A sudden snowstorm caused the car I was in to slide into a snow bank. I began to bleed heavily and spent the next two days at a hospital in the tiny town of Lordsburg, New Mexico, pretending to the kind … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged abortion, birth control, human, law, motherhood, pro-choice, religion, roe v. wade
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