- Our skulls didn’t evolve to be punched – “The entire conjecture is based on sports like mixed martial arts and modern crime stats. And females don’t even figure into Morgan and Carrier’s hypothesis. Female mate choice, and why sexual dimorphism between the sexes has drastically decreased through time, is either ignored or overshadowed by the belief that we owe our most distinctive features to males walloping each other.”
- This simple cartoon shows what victim blaming really looks like – From criticaldragon1177.
- There are big differences between Republicans and Republicans who watch Fox News – From Michael.
- Politics in your DNA: How biology complicates the “personhood movement” – “News of chimerism and genetic mosaicism is not completely new, nor are the ethical and practical questions associated with them. Yet as a society, we often take a heads-in-the-sand approach to addressing what such developmental complexities mean.”
Long time reader/first time poster… Had to come out of hiding and say that it’s quite likely I am a chimera! I have sectoral heterochromia, something which can happen for a variety of reasons but is most likely to have been the result of chimerism for me. Psyched to think that I’m going to get two votes (as long as I can avoid the police for murdering my twin, of course).
But which twin would they charge?
DUMB bro-science. Queensbury rules had to be brought in to encourage fist-striking. In classic, Broughton Rules ‘boxing’ most matches were decided by throws. Some fighters, like Mendoza, used fist strikes to keep larger opponents from from grappling them.
Only with protective gear does the fist become a reasonable striking surface. George Bernard Shaw wrote a sharp protest against the Queensbury rules (Shaw was a boxer too) because they actually increased the chance of injury and exhaustion.
As someone who has actual experience of fist to face striking (schoolyard bullying and breaking a metacarpal throwing a single punch) I’ll throw in my pseudoscientific-anectodal authority too. What an incredibly stupid, data starved, paper!