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The Tall Poppy Syndrome: Ancestral Strategies for Enforcing Egalitarianism
Before civilization, if you acted like a king, your tribe would make sure you died like a dog.
18 hrs ago
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The Competence Illusion: How We Use Status to Judge Skill (and Get It Wrong)
We like to believe we live in a meritocracy, that the most successful people are also the most competent.
Dec 15
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vittorio
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Alliance over Appearance: The Malleable Nature of In-Group Preference
Your brain is not racist, it’s something much more ancient and frankly more dangerous: a coalition-detection machine.
Dec 13
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vittorio
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The Gossip Protocol: How Reputational Warfare Maintains Social Order
You think gossip is trivial, a vice for the bored and petty, something beneath you.
Dec 11
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vittorio
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The Last Thing That Is Forever
On becoming a father
Dec 10
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vittorio
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The Mating Market: Parental Investment and the Logic of Sexual Competition
Human sexuality is a marketplace governed by one rule: the sex that pays the higher price gets to be choosier about who they mate with.
Dec 9
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vittorio
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The Neurochemistry of Attraction: Love as a Functional Addiction
Falling in love is not a feeling, it’s a temporary neurological impairment designed by evolution to facilitate pair-bonding.
Dec 7
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The Tribal Switch: Oxytocin, In-Group Loyalty, and the Dark Side of Bonding
The same hormone that makes a mother love her child can make a soldier kill for his country, and the core function.
Dec 5
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vittorio
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The Biology of Hierarchy: How Social Status Rewires Your Brain and Body
Your position in the social hierarchy is a physiological reality that determines your biology.
Dec 3
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vittorio
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The Dominance Delusion: Why Fear Fails and Prestige Endures
Everyone has felt it.
Dec 1
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vittorio
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November 2025
The Biological Suppression of Human Pair Bonding: How Modern Systems Wage War on Your Relationship
The papers have existed for fifty years.
Nov 27
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vittorio
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The $2.8 Billion Energy Scam: Why Relationship Coaches Can’t Define What They’re Selling
“Masculine energy” and “feminine polarity” aren’t biology.
Nov 25
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vittorio
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