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Evolutionary psychologist David Buss, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, has pondered the sociobiological logic of forgiveness and concluded that at least in the realm of mating, men and women may be programmed to employ it differently. Males, he suggests, are less likely to forgive a fling because if the woman becomes pregnant, "a man doesn't want to be investing resources in other men's children." In contrast, a woman may be more forgiving of a man's one-time infidelity (assuming that he has already given her a child) but less forgiving of a long...
...starting point for any evolutionary view of sex differences is David Buss's 1994 book, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, in which he presents the findings of his 37-culture study of male and female mate preferences and discusses the evolutionary origins and behavioral consequences of what he finds. A section titled "The Hidden Side of Women's Short-Term Sexuality," which elaborates on such topics as what women stand to gain from "casual sex as one strategy within a flexible sexual repertoire," gives the lie to Ehrenreich's claim that evolutionary psychologists have been "fooled" into...
...have mixed emotions," admitted West, who lost his argument against Rodman with owner Jerry Buss. The Laker organization, one of the most successful sports franchises in the history of overpriced beer, is in lock-the-doors identity crisis. They fire a gentleman who represented the class of the past, and they bring in Rodman's history of tormenting coaches and alienating teammates with tardiness and demon-seed weirdness. Before he'd even put on a uniform, Rodman said the Lakers "don't know the game of basketball." And since they'd fired Harris, Rodman volunteered to coach, saying that...
...length of the lander, and closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
Before leaving for the competition, Galindo will go through his usual drill. He will kiss two stuffed monkeys dolls that Yamaguchi once gave him. Then he will round up the cats, Sky and Trucker (named for his father), and buss them. He used to have more superstitious routines, like lacing up the skate on his landing foot first. But he has eliminated that. "Now," he says with considerable determination, "I rely on training and hard work." And on memories of Jess, George, Jim and Rick...