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6 Reddit comments about Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives:

u/NotSpartacus · 27 pointsr/IAmA

Thanks!

>I think the coolest thing I’ve found is the evolutionary reason why people reject evolution. I haven’t published it yet but, when it comes out, its probably going to cause a minor shit storm.

Please post to reddit when it's published.

In case anyone wants to check out the above mentioned books:

Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal

The Paleolithic Prescription by Boyd and Eaton

Exiles from Eden by Glantz and Pearce

Primates in the Classroom by Gary Bernhard

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Miller and Kanzawa

Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan

u/yay_for_science · 11 pointsr/askscience

There is a decent wikipedia article on Eye contact. It goes over some social implications, but doesn't really delve into the meat of the issue. Fortunately, there does seem to be a good amount of research on the issue. This study postulates that, since eyes are a good feedback indicator, eye contact is linked to affiliative motivation (an unconscious desire to maintain relationships). This study investigates the importance of eye contact during infancy. It seems that eye contact plays an important role in developing many relationships, including flirting. Another study, thrillingly entitled Breaking the Ice in Human-Agent Communication: Eye-Gaze Based Initiation of Contact with an Embodied Conversational Agent tackles that beast, but arrives to the unsatisfying conclusion that it's good to be attractive, but eye contact certainly doesn't hurt when flirting.

But why you ask? What really causes that connection? This is where it gets tricky, and where some speculation comes in. David Sloan Wilson wrote a wonderful book entitled Evolution for Everyone, and in it he tackles a few topics of human evolution. He describes how important (and overlooked) human social structure has been on human evolution. A good part of this (along with why rock throwing is important) is devoted to our body language and how we communicate our feelings in a way that we can't control. This helped prohibit individuals trying to take advantage of others; their real intentions were displayed with out them knowing. Now, to speculate, eye contact could be some sort of challenge. Initiating eye contact shows a desire to know what that person is thinking and what their intent is. Also, by initiating eye contact, you are opening yourself up to them for investigation, putting your intentions on display. I feel like this study, which documents how people felt that individuals avoiding eye contact were being deceptive, vindicates that speculation.

Edit: forgot a word.

u/rAtheismSelfPostOnly · 1 pointr/INTPBookmarks

u/Dream_Of_Unity · 1 pointr/AskReddit

If you like life sciences/evolution books I recommend Evolution for everyone. Link. I'm not too far into it but so far I love it.

As far as the original topic goes, one of the things that I find most frustrating that I haven't really seen people really touch on is that, so many guys are so dumbfounded at the prospect of boobs that they will give compliment girls for things that they wouldn't for guys. I guess girls also do this for attractive males which also frustrates me being that I'm not in either groups.

u/Krakalaken · 1 pointr/IAmA

Firstly, I LOVE theater! I was in the annual musical every year at my high-school. Thespian-five

Second, I haven't seen Jurassic Park. I first learned about Paleontology by talking to some friends of my grandfather (who was a geologist) when I was about five, and later constant museum visits kept me interested.

Finally, I too suck at math. Most of the math requirements were during my bachelor work. For the graduate degree you learn a lot more about what you'll actually be doing in the field. My favorite class was probably biology, just because I love looking at the evolution of organisms throughout history.

I strongly recommend Evolution for Everyone.

u/curious_redhead · 1 pointr/askscience

Both of these explanations are very good and spot on. If you want more reading material on this subject I recommend the book Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson. (In the last part of the book he gets on a bit of a soapbox and I don't agree with all the things he says, but the first 2/3rds of the book are excellent.)