When we observe humanity from a perspective of animal behaviour (ethology), we find something unusual: human females do not look or act like females in most other species. Instead, they exhibit behaviours and characteristics that, in the rest of the animal kingdom, are associated with males competing for mates. This might seem counterintuitive at first, […]
biology
Biology, not philosophy
It’s a sunny spring day and the birds are busy. Some are flying about, perhaps foraging. I notice one that is staring at me from under the bush. What does it want? Suddenly, the bird returns with a little stick in its beak, flies away and disappears into a tree. Ah, it’s probably building a […]