Happy Hotties: Reproductive capital linked to happiness

Happy New Year Alpha-Acolytes.  After an extended Holiday break I am back in the saddle in Seattle.  I trust you all had as wild and exciting new year as I spent with family in the frozen midwest city of Minneapolis, aka little Somalia.  Traveler’s tip: There is a treasure trove of exotic girls of East [...]

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Go Get ‘em Tiger

  I’m sure nobody has missed the brouhaha surrounding Tiger Woods’ alleged infidelity.  Not being a celebrity fanboy sycophant, I generally despise the celebrity worship Americans insist on engaging in and all the rabid gasping and moralizing when one of them is suddenly revealed as a mere mortal like the rest of us.  Unfortunately unless [...]

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Phenotypic frontin’ – What’s wrong with cosmetic therapies?

Men, the future is here.  This article describes a procedure developed and tested on rabbits to grow and reattach prosthetic penises from the individuals own tissue.  Once done the body accepts it and it becomes fully functional.  While ethical issues will likely prevent men from partaking in this procedure voluntarily for cosmetic reasons, doubtless if [...]

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About Face

Effeminate hipsters take note.  You are quite possibly more desirable relationship partners than the alpha dogs.  Lest you lose yourselves in runaway celebration however this isn’t the coup you may think it would be.

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What is a child worth?

I just had to throw this article up.  It’s somewhat satirical but gets at a real nut of truth about the reasons behind declining birth rates among the middle and upper classes in America and the developed world.  Besides the obvious biological reason (failure to reproduce is genetic suicide) why would anyone want to have [...]

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Your game benefits your children

There should be little disagreement that beauty comes with perks.  Being beautiful imbues a wealth of social and economic benefits to the lucky few.  Moreover despite the hue and cry in the media beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, but represents those endowed with superior genomes.  Beauty is valuable because the offspring [...]

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Further evidence that fertile women are on the make

I’ve pointed this fact out before but it bears reiteration.  Women at the peak of their fertility are the most likely group to be attracted to Alpha males for short-term encounters.  They identify them by their scent and secondary sexual characteristics that demonstrate high testosterone levels. In times past, prior to electric light and hormonal [...]

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Are the Beautiful Smarter? Assortive Mating and Fecundity

Beauty is highly prized by humans, particularly in prospective mates.  This is because beauty is believed to be a proxy for reproductive fitness and genetic strength.  Despite many unctuous diatribes by those who would have us see more than skin deep, people continue to sort themselves for procreative purposes in accordance with their attractiveness, both [...]

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Armed and Dangerous: Warrior gene linked to violent behavior

Dominant men are prone to violence and aggression. There are doubtless many biological bases for this, including testosterone and nitric oxide levels. Research may have found another however, a genetic variant of a gene named MAOA, aka the “Warrior Gene” (hat tip to blogger Male Chauvinist Woman at Female Misogynist). 

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Man or Mouse

A study on mice found that inhibition of nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter, led to increased aggression, often fatal between males.  Another effect was persistent sexual advances even where females were not receptive.  It seems that both of these behaviors are linked: Johns Hopkins University scientists have discovered a genetic basis for violent and excessive sexual [...]

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