Ruggeri is a multi-award-winning journalist who focuses on science, history, and sometimes the overlap between the two. A former science editor for the BBC, she has written for BBC.com, New Scientist, ...

Ben and Amory track down the origins of "the alpha," and whether this idea – which has been recanted by the very scientist who popularized it – has any legitimacy when talking about people.

Women contribute most to society when they raise their children full-time, while the main role of men is to "protect and provide"—and this is the way it's always been. That, at least, is the ...

(via Big Think) Primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term ‘alpha male.’ Now, he’s debunking common stereotypes to explain what an ‘alpha male’ really is – empathetic and ...