“ You Are What You EatTake food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself - as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by our cu… Christopher Ryan
“ The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. While we in the West glorify male dominance and competition, Sanday says, the Minangkabau glorify t… Christopher Ryan
“ Indications of spermatic firepower are evident in the differences between a man’s first spurts and his last. A human ejaculation typically consists of anywhere from three to nine spurts. Researchers w… Christopher Ryan
“ Lo que nos enriquece no es lo que poseemos, sino aquello de lo que podemos prescindir. IMMANUEL KANT Christopher Ryan
“ Baby, I love you like a lion loves his kill. Surely, a less romantic description of marriage has never been written. Christopher Ryan
“ Having no coercive power, leaders are simply those who are followed—individuals who have earned the respect of their companions. Such leaders do not—cannot—demand anyone’s obedience. Christopher Ryan
“ ¿Por qué iba a ser nuestra maldad el bagaje de un pasado simiesco, y nuestra bondad, exclusivamente humana? ¿Por qué no hemos de buscar la continuidad con otros animales también para nuestros atributo… Christopher Ryan
“ When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or cancer. No anemia or common cold. No i… Christopher Ryan
“ It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but a brief moment. Even if we ignore the roughly two million years since the em… Christopher Ryan
“ Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.10 This is a curious notion of productivity—at once overtly political and yet presented innocently e… Christopher Ryan
“ Our model might strike you as absurd, salacious, insulting, scandalous, fascinating, depressing, illuminating, or obvious. But whether or not you are comfortable with what we present here, we hope you… Christopher Ryan
“ How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of fire and brimstone failed to rid even the pries… Christopher Ryan
“ A natural family. Perhaps this easy acceptance between adults and unrelated children, the diffuse nurturing found in societies where children refer to all men as father and all women as mother, societ… Christopher Ryan
“ No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied—including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all this… Christopher Ryan
“ Las pruebas —tanto físicas como circunstanciales— apuntan a una prehistoria humana en la que nuestros antepasados hacían muchísimo más el amor que la guerra. Christopher Ryan
“ Once our ancestors began cultivating land for food, they were running on a wheel, but never fast enough. More land provides more food. And more food means more children born and fed. More children pro… Christopher Ryan
“ If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that neither the obscure tactics of vice nor the modesty of virtue could have escaped pub… Christopher Ryan
“ The anachronistic presumption that women have always bartered their sexual favors to individual men in return for help with child care, food, protection, and the rest of it collapses upon contact with… Christopher Ryan
