The Scientific Fundamentalist

Estrogen

Satoshi Kanazawa on October 9, 2008

Big eyes

Mating

Satoshi Kanazawa on October 5, 2008

Blue eyes

Environment

Satoshi Kanazawa on October 2, 2008

Blonde hairWhy do blondes have more fun?  Because gentlemen prefer blondes.  Why do gentlemen prefer blondes?  Because they have evolved psychological mechanisms that predispose them to prefer women with blonde hair.  Why?

Evolutionary Psychology

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 28, 2008

Large breasts

Evolutionary Psychology

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 25, 2008

Small waistsWhat are the ideal female measurements?  36-24-36.  Why are they considered to be the ideal female measurements?  It turns out that these numbers are not chosen arbitrarily.  There is precise evolutionary logic behind them.

Health

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 21, 2008

Long hairMen in general prefer women with long hair.  And most young women choose to grow their hair long.  Once again, men’s preference for women with long hair is the reason for women’s preference to grow their hair long.  The question then is:  Why do men prefer women with long hair?

Evolutionary Psychology

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 18, 2008

YouthOne of the major characteristics of ideal female beauty is youth.  Why do men prefer to mate with young women?

Media

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 15, 2008

Why do men like blonde bombshells (and why do women want to look like them)?

Genetics

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 11, 2008

Personality

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 7, 2008

How parents raise their children may not be very important to adult personality.

Genetics

Satoshi Kanazawa on September 4, 2008

Behaviorism

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 31, 2008

The paperback edition of our book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters is going to be published tomorrow (02 September 2008), which means that it’s been exactly one year since the billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett went missing.

Sex

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 28, 2008

In a recent article in the Times of London, the journalist and former two-time Olympian (table tennis) Matthew Syed reveals just how much casual sex goes on in the Olympic Village, especially among swimmers.

Evolutionary Psychology

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 24, 2008

Embarrassment

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 21, 2008

Just because an act happens to be atrocious does not mean that it is not simultaneously the most humane and compassionate thing to do under the circumstances. Sometimes the alternatives are much worse. 

Parenting

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 18, 2008

Social surveys often show that parents are less happy than comparable adults without children. This makes no sense from an evolutionary psychological perspective.  

Pregnancy

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 14, 2008

There have seemingly been a spate of cases where a man has been convicted or suspected of murdering a wife or girlfriend pregnant with his genetic child. 

Evolutionary Psychology

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 10, 2008

Marriage

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 7, 2008

Marriage

Satoshi Kanazawa on August 3, 2008

Enjoying the fruits of their laborThe social control perspective on the desistance effect of marriage is at best incomplete if marriage has the same desistance effect on scientists.