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...previously held that human evolution was nearing its end, says the Framingham study is indeed an important example of how natural selection still operates through inherited differences in reproductive ability. But Jones argues that variation in female fertility - as measured in the Framingham study - is a much less important factor in human evolution than differences in male fertility. Sperm hold a much higher chance of carrying an error or mutation than an egg, especially among older men. "While it used to be that men had many children in older age to many different women, now men tend to have only...
...smelled something they liked, rather than something "clean." "It could be simply that a positive smell creates a positive mood, which encourages positive behavior. You cannot conclude it is cleanliness per se," says Brown University psychologist Rachel Herz, author of The Scent of Desire. To rule out the confounding factor of good smells, she says, the study's authors could have added a third room to the experiment scented with recently baked chocolate chip cookies, for example...
After the University’s endowment lost $11 billion this past year—falling to $26 billion—Harvard’s endowment assets now outnumber its debt by a factor of four, compared to a factor of nine last year...
...season thus far but will need to keep producing (and more importantly, keep winning) to secure any trophies. On the Ivy front, Dartmouth’s Keat (7 goals, 5 assists) looks to be Akpan’s chief competitor. The success of their teams will play a large factor in determining who wins this year...
Hawrilenko doesn’t make as clear a distinction between gambling and professional poker playing, but he says that he has greatly diminished the risk factor associated with compulsive gambling. “A lot of times, when people think ‘gambling,’ they think ‘gambling your savings away,’ or playing with money you can’t afford to lose. My cousin asked me the other day, ‘So, can you sit down at the table and lose your house?’ It?...