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Illustrated facing-page paperback featuring Baba's rap lyrics and the original Middle English source, with illustrations by Erik Brinkman (Baba's brother).Evolution Articles
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Darwin on the Fringe
Baba's entertaining blog written for Whatsonstage.com, interpreting the Edinburgh Fringe through the lens of evolutionary theory. 2009 – The Rap Guide to Evolution and The Rebel Cell
2010 – The Rap Guide to Human Nature and Rapconteur
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Darwin Day (Video)
A rap tribute to the countless biology teachers in the trenches of science literacy, teaching evolution to millions of students even in the face of religious objections. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, so they deserve our thanks and support.
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Darwin's America
We're Making a Movie!
You heard it here first: we're making a feature documentary about the Rap Guide to Evolution. The film, provisionally titled "Darwin's America," will be produced by Creative Chaos Ventures, a New York company whose most recent doc "Casting By" was a film festival favourite and HBO selection. Darwin's America will follow The Rap Guide to Evolution as we tour the show to the places it's needed most: the American South and current hotspots of "creationism vs evolution" conflict. Our aim is to engage and entertain, not belittle, and to explore the question: can a performance succeed where traditional arguments and education have failed to make an impact on people's views about evolution?
The film commences shooting next week with my gig at Mississippi State University for their "Darwin Week" celebrations, followed by a show (for contrast) at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The rest of the tour stops will be spread through March and April with some additional filming in July, and we are aiming to include gigs in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma, plus there is still space to add more locations, which is where you come in. If you know of a venue or an organization anywhere in America (red states preferred, but not required) that would like to host a Rap Guide to Evolution performance in March or April, please get in touch. Because of the film and the short lead time I can do the gigs for a fraction of my normal fee.
It's exciting to be part of a project with a wide open and uncertain outcome, and I'll keep you posted as the tour and filming process unfolds!
Verbal Bling, Homicide, and Afrocentricity
When I was commissioned to write The Rap Guide to Evolution and challenged to communicate the key ideas behind Darwin's theory in hip-hop form, my first thought was to go through my record collection and see if I could find any rap songs that already centre around evolutionary themes. The three that seemed like the best candidates were "I'm A African" by Dead Prez, "Survival of the Fittest" by Mobb Deep, and "Hypnotize" by Biggie Smalls. So I set myself the challenge of re-writing these songs to make them explicitly instead of just implicitly evolutionary.
None of these three songs was written with Darwin in mind (as far as I know), but all three capture important ideas that are taught in biology classes the world over.
"I'm A African" by Dead Prez is an expression of black nationalist unity, reminding all black people, whether American, Jamaican, Haitian, etc, that they are children of Africa. As Dead Prez puts it in the outro: "It ain't 'bout where you stay, it's 'bout the motherland!" In my remixed version of the song (music video here), I remind all people of all races that they are also children of Africa, although some of us have to trace our ancestry back a bit further to get there. Since all humans lived in Africa (and had dark skin) as recently as 60,000 years ago, our current racial diversity is an evolutionarily recent "skin deep" phenomenon, and the Dead Prez anthem "I'm a African, and I know what's happenin'!" is a perfect synthesis of that scientific fact, which is increasingly supported by more and more streams of evidence. Also, it's hilarious when I can get white people, especially older white people (not to mention people of all other races) singing along with the chorus. The more diverse the audience, the more transgressive and cathartic the message. We are all African!
"Survival of the Fittest" by Mobb Deep captures the bleakness and danger of inner city ghetto life as well as any song I know. From the opening lines "There's a war goin' on outside no man is safe from, you can run but you can't hide forever…" the song reminds us that the world is sometimes a violent, hostile place, where strength and a hunger to fight for what's yours are all that keep you from being someone else's prey. This is also a perfect expression of the classic "nature red in tooth and claw" or "dog eat dog" understanding of Darwinism, in which organisms are locked in a constant and bloody struggle for survival.
The book "Homicide" by Martin Daly and Margot Wilson (summarized in this article) helps to explain how humans fit into this "war of nature" by exploring "the ways in which homicide rates respond to demographic, social and economic variables." Using an evolutionary psychology model to generate and tests hypotheses about human violence, Daly and Wilson conclude: "Our homicide research indicates that willingness to use dangerous competitive tactics depends in predictable ways on one's material and social circumstances and life prospects."
My remix of "Survival of the Fittest" (music video here and live performance here) combines Mobb Deep's perspective with Daly and Wilson's, showing how the male coalitional violence and desire to fight for status and dominance articulated so lucidly in the original song are in fact universal (though context-dependent) marks of our species.
Another insight of Daly and Wilson's is the relationship between life expectancy, income inequality, and age of first reproduction in young women. This suggests an evolutionary link between homicide in men and teen pregnancy in women, both of which can be understood as adaptations triggered by "one's material and social circumstances and life prospects." Over millions of years we have evolved the psychological tools needed to deal with certain challenges: scarce resources, dangerous enemies, and significant potential rewards (as well as high potential costs) for strategic youthful risk-taking. The bottom line is: in some contexts men who fail to risk violence and women who delay reproduction are the least likely to contribute genes to the next generation, and that's when Mobb Deep's "only the strong survive" perspective ceases to be "senseless violence" and starts looking like an evolutionarily rational response.
"Mr. Brinkman draws parallels between animal kingdom behavior and rap as a survivalist expression of power, pride, menace and sexual magnetism. And as he wryly points out, what is the ostentatious plumage of the male peacock but nature's bling?" The New York Times
The Notorious BIG's song "Hypnotize" mixes real, physical bling with incredibly fluid lyricism – verbal bling – creating a harmonious whole with "sexual magnetism" as its explicit raison d'etre. What is the song for? The ladies in the chorus leave no room for doubt, singing: "Biggie Biggie Biggie, can't you see, somehow your words just hypnotize me, and I just love your flashy ways, I guess that's why they're broke and you're so paid." According to evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, this isn't just what Biggie's song is for, this is also what "song" – ie the human capacity for music and poetry – is "for" in terms of its ultimate evolutionary function. If this is the case, then Biggie's words and their hypnotic effect on the female brain are fulfilling their precise Darwinian purpose.
For my remixed version of "Hypnotize" I had to tweak Biggie's message ever so slightly (lacking any real physical bling of my own to flaunt), by instead putting the emphasis on the verbal bling and its effects.
According to Miller, the ability to synthesize words and music into pleasing arrangements can be understood as a "costly signal" analogous to the peacock's tail, the nightingale's song, or the bowerbird's nest, a talent that was designed by evolution for a single purpose: attracting mates. And what do the ladies get out of the arrangement? They get an unfakeable guarantee of genetic quality, an assurance that the genes behind the display are top notch and will produce healthy and equally sexy offspring, well-equipped to fight diseases (because a disease-susceptible organism couldn't maintain the necessary brain and body power for the display in the first place) and attract the next generation of choosy groupies.
And what about the female talent for song? Well, human males are choosy too, especially when it comes to long-term investment, fatherhood, and commitment. Singing females may be displaying the same qualities as singing males, that is, well-developed brains and bodies and sexy genes, only their evolutionary goal may be to attract quality instead of quantity. Palaeolithic female pop divas might well have attracted stronger, smarter, higher-status mates than off-key female warblers in the Stone Age. Hey, it seems to have worked pretty well for Beyonce.
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The Rap Up
What a year 2013 was! With your help we completed two crowdfunding campaigns, funding the first-ever three show hip-hop theatre cycle off-Broadway and a music video for the Darwin-inspired peace-anthem "Don't Sleep With Mean People" (look for the video release in 2014). The Rap Guide to Evolution toured the world, including stops in New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Canada, and all over the USA. We were nominated for an OBA Award for "Best Unique Theatrical Experience" in New York, and the NCSE gave me a "Friend of Darwin Award" for some reason.
2013 was also the year I kicked off a new kind of performance, the "Rap Up," in which I sit in the audience at a live event, whether a lecture, conference, performance, concert, award show, whatever, with my brain partitioned, part listening and part composing verses on the fly. Then at the end of the event I step to the stage and perform a fresh-minted satirical rap summary, unrevised and unrehearsed, which gets a great response since the content is tailored for the crowd, a transient zen rap that lives only for a single performance (unless it ends up on YouTube). Of course, you won't catch all the in-jokes unless you were there, but here's a collection of recent rap up performances that were filmed.
And what does 2014 hold in store? More Evolution touring (Norway, Australia, and the American South coming up this Spring), more rap up gigs, more Canterbury Tales (I'm looking into Edinburgh, fingers crossed), and more new music. I'm working on a solo hip-hop record and have a couple of new shows in development, so stay tuned for releases and announcements coming up.
Happy new year!
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Rap Guide to Evolution in Vancouver
In two and a half weeks I'll be performing my first-ever public theatre run in my hometown of Vancouver, BC, and the first run of any kind there since the Vancouver Fringe in 2003. My early forays into hip-hop theatre have taken me around the world, but it took a full decade for them to bring me home again! The Rap Guide to Evolution runs from October 29 through November 10 at the Cultch in East Vancouver.
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New Album: Irregular Spirits
Back in 2005 while I was performing at the Brighton Fringe Festival I met and made friends with a network of ridiculously talented UK rappers. Several of them were in a group called The Menagerie, and several others joined the group later on, and over the years I've had the pleasure of recording and performing with them around the UK. A few years ago several of us came together to record the album Irregular Spirits, which was just released on CD, vinyl, and digital download from the UK label Tea Sea Records.
Stream or Download Irregular Spirits Now
In addition to myself, the album features Dizraeli, Elemental, Dr. Syntax, Koaste, Longusto, Vecks, Teej, Jon Clark, Simon Mole, and Sadie Jemmett, with cuts by Nick Maxwell and production by Tom Caruana (of Wu-Tang vs The Beatles fame). The label describes it as "a wildly original album filled with ridiculous flows, soulful ballads, and hilariously twisted hip-hop phantasmagoria worthy of The Island of Dr. Moreau." I couldn't have said it better myself.
Watch the video for lead single "Are You Serious?"
Seriously, it's very difficult to do this album justice with a textual description, so I humbly implore you to just go check it out. It's a project I'm very proud of, and the artists on it are some of my best friends as well as the rappers I most admire, on the British Isles and worldwide.
If you write a blog or music column, please consider reviewing the record. Here's the press release.
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Thunderclap With Me!
This post has one request and one request only: please join my thunderclap!
Link to join: http://thndr.it/14qcq7C
Thunderclap is a social media amplifier that will blast out a message via Twitter and Facebook from hundreds of different accounts all at once, but only if the owners of those accounts sign up first – that's you! If I can get 250 people signed up by noon on August 29th, I can finish my current crowdfunding campaign with a mighty bang.
The message I want to send is "Don't Sleep With Mean People" combined with a quote from the biologist Richard Alexander: "Evolution is most deterministic for those still unaware of it." That's one of the main reasons I'm passionate about science communication. By understanding the influence of evolution on our behaviour, we have the ability to resist that influence, and act more in alignment with our goals and priorities.
Please help me spread the message, and get a few of your friends to sign up as well. It's free, and the power of your added voice would help me immensely.
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Sleep With Whoever You Want, Jeremy Yoder
From a gene's eye view, is it better to be in the body of a machiavellian psychopath or in the body of a socially-responsible nice guy? The answer to that question depends on the environment, and recent evidence suggests that the answer is far from obvious. My debate with Jeremy Yoder comes down to the question of whether or not conscientious sexual choices can change this equation.
In his third and (thankfully) final post critiquing my "Don't Sleep With Mean People" campaign, Yoder helpfully narrows his scattershot objections down to a simple and easily refuted point:
My argument isn't that this genetic contribution [to individual differences in meanness] doesn't exist—it's that this genetic contribution is pretty much meaningless from the perspective of an individual person's dating life.
I should note that this is Yoder's argument now. In his previous post it was about how "natural selection needs genetic variation in order to operate" and Yoder was (or acted like he was) skeptical that differences in meanness are due in any part to genetic variation. Now he acknowledges the evidence that genetic variation does in fact play a role in determining human temperaments, but claims this is irrelevant to selection because our genes are sensitive to environmental triggers:
If genetic variation is only strongly predictive of variation in criminality for people who've experienced many environmental risk factors, then you'd have to exclusively date people with those risk factors (this is a filter I haven't found on OKCupid yet) in order to know that the variation in their personalities is probably due to genetics.
Let's take a moment to note that my campaign is not titled "Don't Sleep With Genetically Mean People." The concept is specifically agnostic about the relative contributions of environment and genes – it doesn't matter! As I've said from the beginning, I'm assuming only that some component in some people is genetic. As long as that's true, targeting meanness in general will impact both genetically and environmentally caused meanness, by incentivizing good behaviour while reducing the relative fitness of mean genes.
Let's say a young lady, call her Courtney, were to change her ways and eschew sleeping with bad boys like the guy above. Anytime a prospective lover brags about beating someone up or expresses enthusiasm for street racing or firearms she breaks things off with him. She doesn't know (or care) which of these guys were exposed to risk factors and which weren't, which of them have mean genes and which are a "product of their environment." They all get dismissed in turn, and she ends up settling down with a conscientious, supportive, responsible guy. What's the worst that could happen? Here's Yoder's doom-and-gloom scenario:
You could end up reproducing with someone whose genome is chock-full of variants for "meanness" that are never apparent in the right environment.
In other words, the guy is a prince among men and never mistreats her or anyone else, but he carries latent genes for meanness. So what? She gets a great guy and has a happy life! Genes for aggression that don't get expressed can't be targeted by selection (Yoder's point) but they also don't increase the rate of spousal abuse or armed robbery (my point). And if those genes manifest themselves as meanness in the next generation due to encountering the requisite environmental triggers, they will be screened out by the next generation of young women who don't sleep with mean people. Or maybe the carriers will adapt to the new environment (where meanness is suddenly maladaptive), and figure out how to act right. Either way, individuals like Courtney win, humanity wins, and mean people lose (along with Yoder's argument).
This is not just a cockamamie scheme I cooked up, it's something that has been happening for tens of thousands of years already. Richard Wrangham and Nicholas Wade have written about the phenomenon of "gracilization" or "self-domestication" in humans and in our close cousins the bonobos. This self-domestication is driven by an evolutionary process in which "the violent and aggressive males somehow had a lesser chance of breeding." If you agree that a less violent world would be a better one for everyone involved, this transformation is something to celebrate. It is aided by moral philosophy and the rule of law – Geoffrey Miller argues "moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status." It is aided by (pop) cultural evolution when peaceable high-status males like Ashton Kutcher inform screaming female fans that sexiness consists of being "intelligent, thoughtful, and generous." And I hope it is aided, in some small way, by my campaign.
When Jeremy Yoder first started sniping at me I thought he was just being an annoying pedant, but I've been flabbergasted to discover that he truly believes mate choice makes no difference to human behaviour, and individual sexual choices could not, under any circumstances, make future generations perceptibly, genetically nicer. How on earth could a practicing biologist adhere so tenaciously to this position? Does he really think male-on-male aggression is sexually selected in every mammal species except ours? Yoder is clearly not a blank-slatist, so in the end I can only return to my original "ad homo-nem" diagnosis (with apologies to Jesse Bering). Like the grinch that stole Christmas, Yoder is mad at my "heteronormative" campaign because he feels left out of it as a gay man. His mate choices are very unlikely to influence genes via sexual selection, so he argues that sexual selection "is pretty much meaningless from the perspective of an individual person's dating life."
Confidential to JY: if you had just expressed your outrage by saying "I feel hurt and left out" instead of accusing me of peddling pseudo-science, we could have avoided all this ugliness.
My only consolation for Yoder is to point out that we are virtually in the same boat. Because violence is mostly perpetrated by heterosexual males, it's heterosexual female mate choice that has the greatest chance of changing the evolutionary equation. Peace-loving males like Yoder and I are cheerleaders at best, arguing about the details while female mate choice continues its slow but relentless reshaping of the human genome. I have no delusions that I can change its course, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to give it a nudge.
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JY's Five Finger Discount
In his recent blog post, evolutionary biologist and sleeping-with-mean-people advocate Jeremy Yoder tries his best to win an argument by shoplifting the conclusion rather than paying for it with good points. If you're just tuning in, our debate was initiated when he bombed my Don't Sleep With Mean People campaign Pearl Harbour style, prompting me to respond with a challenge: since Yoder claims he is keen to support a project of mine that teaches people about evolution, he should concede that this project is a worthy one and pay up. One thing I didn't expect to have to do is teach an evolutionary biologist about evolution, but since this one keeps digging himself deeper, here goes.
In his original post, Yoder argued that the DSWMP slogan would never work because it assumes "the major component of variation in meanness is explained by genetics" and because the meanest people he could imagine – Rush Limbaugh, Simon Cowell, and Anne Coulter – would always be rationalized as charming and kind by their lovers. Although I deliberately left the definition of "mean" open-ended (ie "don't sleep with homophobes" is a fair interpretation), I had less innocuous forms of meanness than social conservatism in mind, things like violence, aggression, cruelty, coercion, etc, the kinds of behaviours that incur felony charges and are overwhelmingly a male-perpetrated phenomenon. In his new post, Yoder's argument is not that male violence isn't an adaptation; rather, he argues that our violent tendencies have been so completely drilled into us by natural selection that they show insufficient genetic variation for selection to act on:
It may well be that there is something programmed into the development of human males that makes us, as a group, more likely to be violent once we've reached maturity—and, certainly, the development of boys into men is controlled by our genes. But natural selection (or artificial selection promoted by a nerd-rapper) needs genetic variation in order to operate. The fact that every male becomes more violent after puberty doesn't tell us anything at all about whether individual differences in the magnitude of that change—differences that can be dramatic, both across and within cultural groups—are due to individual genetic differences. And if you don't know that, you really can't claim that you could select for reduced masculine meanness.
He's right that a complete lack of individual genetic differences in proneness-to-violence would be a death-blow for my campaign, but luckily for me and all the other peaceniks who support the DSWMP credo, Yoder simply didn't bother to look up any of the evidence.
A brief search of "genetics" "heritability" "aggression" and "violence" turns up compelling studies from Applied Genetics and Neuroscience, but the best evidence comes from Behavioural Genetics. Behavioural geneticists have devised excellent methods for estimating the amount of heritable variation in personality and behaviour, and proneness to violence is definitely part of their repertoire. They measure heritability by looking at the differences between pairs of fraternal and identical twins raised together and raised apart, and by looking at the similarities and differences between adopted siblings raised in the same home, thus controlling for environmental vs genetic influences. The New York Times summarizes one research finding (Kevin Beaver's) like so:
He has tried to measure which circumstances — having delinquent friends, living in a disadvantaged neighborhood — influence whether a predisposition to violence surfaces. After studying twins and siblings, he came up with an astonishing result: In boys not exposed to the risk factors, genetics played no role in any of their violent behavior. The positive environment had prevented the genetic switches… that affect aggression from being turned on. In boys with eight or more risk factors, however, genes explained 80 percent of their violence.
When Yoder falsely criticized me for assuming that "the major component of variation in meanness is explained by genetics" I responded that he was overstating the case: all we need is for the variation to have some genetic basis, even a minor component, and DSWMP would have an effect. Ironically, the evidence suggests that in high risk populations the difference between a violent thug and a good citizen shows 80% heritability! I'm also willing to bet that among the "risk factors" being measured, they didn't include the presence or absence of conscientious young women promoting the sexual attractiveness of peaceful conflict resolution. "Don't Sleep With Mean People" is another way of saying: if women take a stand and proclaim that they won't be turned on by aggression, that could prevent the genetic switches behind aggression from being turned on.
Yoder's recent argument also contains an interesting analogy that I'd like to expand on. He likens "being a violent male" to "having five fingers on each hand," with the implication being that it might in fact be entirely environmental conditions that cause any variation from the norm:
Consider another trait that is invariant across human populations: almost everyone on the planet has five fingers on each hand. Five-fingered hands absolutely have a genetic basis… But knowing this doesn't tell us, when we see a man with only four fingers, that there's a genetic basis to the variation he represents. Environmental conditions can have profound effects on human skeletal morphology.
As a thought experiment, imagine a hypothetical population of humans where the culturally-favoured method of male-on-male competition is knife fights. Imagine also that knife fights in that population are pretty much the only way a man ever loses fingers, and only the winners are missing fingers, because the losers are all dead (good fighters enjoy a straightforward fitness advantage). Finally, imagine that not all men get into knife fights with equal frequency; some prefer to compete instead with poems or music or by arguing publicly over scientific nuances, and some prefer a combination of strategies. If the tendency to get into knife fights were linked to some stable, heritable personality trait, for instance (dis)agreeableness – and if the heritable variation in that trait were estimated at, say, around 41% or 42% – then having four fingers or less would show significant heritable variation!
Of course, all babies without defects would still be born with five fingers, but the odds of losing one or more fingers after puberty would be strongly influenced by genes. Twin studies would reveal that identical twins were more likely to end up with correlated finger numbers than fraternal twins, and adopted siblings would more closely resemble their biological parents than their adopted parents in number of fingers lost over a lifetime. This is just to point out that Yoder may have his thumb unfairly pressed on the scale in favour of "environmental" factors, which might in some cases be a part of our extended phenotype.
Now imagine some enterprising troubadour, concerned both for the welfare of society (such a pointless waste of fingers!) and for his own welfare as a better wordsmith than a knife fighter, were to write a semi-serious but whimsical song encouraging women not to sleep with men who are missing fingers, which could serve as a proxy for the genes behind the fighting. The women might still be attracted to knife fighters, but also to troubadours and scientists and other types as well, and they might be sick of all the bloodshed. If the song quickly caught on and the women (and gay men) could be heard to sing "He's no good for kissing, his fingers are missing" on every street corner, knife fighting might disappear from the population, even if the genetic variation remained. Changing the cultural triggers would have the same phenotypic effect as changing the genes. Those low-agreeableness high-aggression low-compassion genes might persist in the gene pool for some time, grudgingly muted by the new culturally-imposed standard of good behaviour, but without their fitness advantage they would eventually be lost to drift.
In the same way, my DSWMP campaign targets the intersection of culture and genes. It also assumes that the effects of genes on human behaviour, and the effects of sexual selection (intentional or otherwise) on gene frequency are probabilistic rather than one-to-one deterministic. If the campaign decreases the likelihood of genes "for" violence (ie genes that increase the probability of violence in certain contexts) being either expressed or passed on at all, I will be satisfied, and if it teaches a few people about evolution in the process, even better.
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I Want Jeremy Yoder's Money
In a recent blog post, U of M biology post-doc Jeremy Yoder takes a hatchet to my campaign to promote "Don't Sleep With Mean People" as the new Golden Rule of sex. He dismisses the concept as "inane pseudo-scientific claptrap," questions whether it's a serious campaign or just an elaborate joke to teach evolution (it's both), and concludes with some faint praise: "I know that Brinkman can do better than this." Ironically, his example of my "better" work is the song "Performance, Feedback, Revision," of which "Don't Sleep With Mean People" is just a sub-category. Act like a jerk (performance), fail to get laid (feedback), act like less of a jerk (revision). I could respond by lobbying Yoder's current sex partner(s) to put my slogan into practice, but I don't know them, so I'll settle for an old fashioned rebuttal.
Yoder starts his criticism accurately enough: "Brinkman thinks… that if everyone followed his advice, we could select meanness out of the human population over some unspecified period of time." Of course I think that! As an aspiring evolutionary biologist, he should too. In fact, a similar experiment has already been done on another species: the silver fox. It took only fifty years of intense selective breeding to turn a vicious wild animal into a friendly domesticated one. Is Yoder actually arguing that it would be impossible to achieve this same effect with humans in principle, or just that it would be difficult (impractical, immoral, undesirable) in practice?
These questions hinge on two of Yoder's main critiques: whether the trait in question, "meanness," can be strictly defined, and whether or not it has a genetic basis. The first relies on a false distinction: either we all agree perfectly about the definition of "mean" or we all have a unique and arbitrary definition. The obvious alternative is that we can agree on most of the definition while disagreeing about a smaller sub-set of tricky cases, and that's all we need for this purpose. Even if each person defines "mean" slightly differently, as long as there is some agreement (ie murder, torture, bullying, extortion, aggression, rape, coercion, etc), and as long as that consensus serves as a common benchmark for selection, and as long as the difference between "mean" and "nice" behaviour has some genetic basis, there will be an evolutionary effect.
Yoder complains that the evidence I posted for the genetic basis of meanness was insufficient, and he has a point. The current evidence for direct links between human genes and behavior is more suggestive than conclusive. But it's very suggestive. I originally pointed to this study and more recently added a link to this one, both of which show a correlation between a specific gene and certain kinds of aggressive or hostile or rash behavior, ie the kinds of actions that either are mean or could easily get mean with a little escalation.
Another reason I think meanness is partially genetic is the work of evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, which interprets violent crime and murder as adaptive responses to high stress, competitive, dangerous environments. Daly and Wilson's research is too complex to fully summarize here, but if you're interested, their argument is captured nicely by this article, and I do my best to describe it in the Rap Guide to Evolution and in my TEDxSMU talk.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so take a careful look at the homicide statistics for the city of Chicago (above), revealing the number of murders committed by both sexes at each stage of life. If the forms of meanness shown in this graph aren't at least partially caused by evolutionary adaptations, then why are they so much more likely to be perpetrated by young men than young women, starting at exactly the age of puberty, escalating until the average age of parenthood, and then declining until death? How could "culture" possibly explain that pattern completely, when the same trend can be found cross-culturally around the world?
Yoder dismisses (my presentation of) the Daly and Wilson research at the 2012 Ottawa Evolution conference with a sneer: "[Brinkman] had the chutzpah to tell a ballroom full of evolutionary biologists that teenage male aggression must be an adaptation because teenage boys are aggressive. Dude's not big on the rigorous evolutionary hypothesis testing." It's hard to tell whether he objects to the original hypothesis or if he just didn't follow my summary of it, but either way his statement is a proud display of ignorance.
Given the recent evidence that Genghis Khan has 14 million living descendants, the idea that we have evolutionary instincts for instigating violence shouldn't come as a huge surprise, but neither should the idea that we have competing instincts for avoiding and deterring violence. It's possible for these opposing instincts to coexist in the same species and be flexibly deployed in response to different environmental triggers, and this is where "Don't Sleep With Mean People" works on multiple fronts. The more it catches on, the more it will condition the (social) environment to foster kindness and altruism, because sexual ostracism is a powerful motivator. And as a secondary function, it might also reduce the frequency of mean genes over time. As Rob Brooks points out in his recent blog about the #FreeDohar craze, these instincts run deep and won't be easy to overcome, but sexual choice seems like a good place to start.
Yoder's attack blog also complains that my campaign is "heteronormative as all hell" which of course is true of the genetic component only. The only sex that leads to reproduction is heterosexual, but the cultural impact of "Don't Sleep With Mean People" is equally available to gay men like Yoder. This perceived (but imaginary) insult may have done more to provoke his vitriol than the actual scientific basis of my campaign.
In the end, Yoder's critique finishes with an interesting twist: "Confidential to BB: Come back with a project that actually teaches people about how evolution works, and I'll chip right in." Now we're getting somewhere! I've tried to make it clear that "Don't Sleep With Mean People" is that project, the perfect conversation starter and thought experiment for exploring the implications of mate choice, sexual selection, courtship strategies, phenotypic plasticity, artificial selection, human evolutionary history, behavioural genetics, gene/culture co-evolution, and many other key areas of the field, each of which will be explored in the short documentary film I intend to produce with the crowdfunded money.
I hope Yoder will do the honorable thing and cough up ten bucks. If he does, I might even interview him for the film.
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Seventh century king in Brittany, the son of King Juthael of Amorica. Following a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy c.636, he abdicated to lead a religious life. Ordained at Ponthieu. Hermit at Runiacum, which was later renamed Saint-Josse-sur-Mer. Felt a special call to pray for sailors.
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Kim Kardashian at the Jimmy Kimmel show in Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 23, 2014.
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Kim Kardashian attends the Stephane Rolland show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014 in Paris, Jan. 21, 2014.
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Kim Kardashian appears on The Ellen Degeneres Show on Jan. 17, 2014 where she discussed Kanye and baby North.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Sexy Date Night
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West seen leaving the Mr. Chow restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan. 12, 2014.
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Kim Kardashian posted this Instagram photo with this caption" #ThrowbackThursday @nicolerichie and I being oh so cool at 13 years old", Jan. 9 2014.
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Kim Kardashian shops at Barneys of New York in Los Angeles, Jan. 6, 2014.
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In this video posted to Keek by Scott Disick on Dec. 31, 2013, Kim Kardashian skis under her sister Kourtney while on a ski vacation.
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Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Kourtney Kardashian go skiing in Park City, Utah, Dec. 30, 2013.
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Kim Kardashian posted this photo to Instagram from the Jenner-Kardashian Christmas Eve bash.
Kim Kardashian Goes Sheer in Chicago
Kim Kardashian Instagramed this photo with this caption, "Chicago with my sis @larsapippen", Dec. 17, 2013.
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Reality star and new mom Kim Kardashian spotted getting her eyebrows done at a private house with her gal pal Blac Chyna on December 15, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
Kourtney Kardashian's Disney Family Outing
Kim Kardashian arrives at The Hollywood Reporter's 22nd Annual Women In Entertainment Breakfast, Dec. 11, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Kim Kardashian wears a white bikini on the cover of the Dec. 23, 2013 issue of Us Weekly.
Us Weekly
Kim Kardashian Pays Homage to Her 'Idol' Liz Taylor
Kim Kardashian posted this image on Instagram on Dec. 10, 2013 with the caption, "#my Idol".
Kim Kardashian Brings North to Miami
The five-month-old met artist Jeff Koons at Art Basel.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: All Their Matching Ensembles
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian attend Surface Magazine's DesignDialogues No. 6 at Moore Building on Dec. 5, 2013 in Miami.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: All Their Matching Ensembles
Kim Kardashian and Kayne West are seen in Soho, Nov. 25, 2013 in New York.
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Kim Kardashian Flaunts Her Curves
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West leave their apartment and head to Kanye's concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Nov. 23, 2013.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: So Matchy-Matchy!
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian walk in Soho, Nov. 20, 2013, in New York City.
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Kim Kardashian's Chic Mommy/Daughter Day
TV personality Kim Kardashian is seen in Midtown Manhattan on Nov. 19, 2013 in New York.
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Wow! Kim Kardashian Shows Off Cleavage in Cream
Kim Kardashian is seen Nov. 18, 2013 in New York City.
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Kim K Making other women Green With Envy
Kim seen shopping for beauty supplies at the Beauty Collection in Calabasas, Calif., on Nov. 13, 2013.
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Kim K's Daughter all Giggles
Kim Kardashian posted this photo of North West on Instagram with this caption, "LOL", Nov. 12, 2013.
Kim K Wows for Sears
Kim Kardashian and sisters show off their style in the new Sears commercial featuring the "Kardashian Kollection."
Kim Kardashian Snuggles with Baby North
Kim Kardashian cradles baby North on her balcony, Nov. 9, 2013 in Los Angeles.
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Kim Kardashian Looks Sexier Than Ever
Kim Kardashian, wearing a sexy black leather skirt, arrives at a Hollywood hotel, Nov. 5, 2013, in Hollywood, Calif.
Kim Kardashian Looks Sexier Than Ever
Kim Kardashian on the beach in Malibu with sisters, Kylie, Kendall, Khloe and Mom Kris do a photo shoot in gowns in Malibu, Nov. 4, 2013.
Kim Kardashian Posts Another Revealing Selfie
Kim Kardashian posted this image on Instagram with this caption, "Work day", Nov. 4, 2013.
Kim Kardashian Flaunts 50 Lb. Weight Loss
Kim Kardashian arrives at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Oct. 30, 2013.
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Inside Kim Kardashian's Vegas Birthday Party
Kim Kardashian celebrates her 33rd birthday at Tao Las Vegas, Oct. 25, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Kim Kardashian Bares All in Sexy Selfie
Kim Kardashian wears short shorts as she heads to lunch in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2013.
Kim Kardashian Bares All in Sexy Selfie
Kim Kardashian flaunted her post baby body in a daring white bikini picture she shared on her Instagram account, Oct. 17, 2013.
Kim Kardashian Steps Out for Steak
After a busy day attending events and filming their reality show, new mom Kim stopped at Ruth's Chris, Oct. 10, 2013 in Woodland Hills, Calif.
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Kim Kardashian Takes Baby North On A Stroll
Kim Kardashian, pushing her daughter North West in a stroller, making an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' in Hollywood, Calif., Oct. 9, 2013.
Whoa! Kim Kardashian Wore a Revealing Gown in Paris
Kim Kardashian attends the "Mademoiselle C" premier, Oct. 1, 2013, in Paris.
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Kim Kardashian Flaunts 'Nori' Necklace in Paris
Kim Kardashian is seen shopping in Paris during fashion week on September 30, 2013. Her necklace has the name of her daughter, North, on it.
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Kim Kardashian Leaves North, Heads to Paris
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arrive at the Givenchy fashion show for Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2014, held at 'la Halle Freyssinet,' Sept. 29, 2013, in Paris.
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Wow! Kim Kardashian Reveals Body After Baby
Kim Kardashian takes a break from her daughter, North, to get lunch with her sister Kourtney, Scott Disick and Blac Chyna at Stanley's Restaurant in Sherman Oaks, Calif. on Sept. 24, 2013.
Kim Kardashian Naps With Puppy Bernard
Khloe Kardashian has posted a picture of her sister Kim napping with Khloe and Lamar Odom's boxer pup, Bernard, on her Facebook page.
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Kim Kardashian Her Baby Bump
Kim Kardashian runs to her car after having dinner at Dan Tana's restaurant in West Hollywood, May 26 2013.
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Kim Kardashian Out With Kanye
Kim Kardashian shows off her very pregnant curves in Mykonos, Greece, May 17, 2013. The reality star was enjoying her vacation with her family as they filmed her reality show.
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Kim K Glamorous in Black
Kim Kardashian is glowing while out and about with Kanye West for dinner in NYC, May 5, 2013.
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Kim Kardashian Ready to Pop in Tight Black Dress
Kim Kardashian poses on the red carpet at Sears to promote the "Spring 2013 Kardashian Kollection" on May 4, 2013 in Houston, Texas.
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Kardashian Wears White and Denim
Kim Kardashian goes casual in white and tight denim jeans as departs LAX on May 3, 2013.
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Kardashian Stunning in Red
Kim Kardashian is seen leaving the Dorchester hotel to go see Beyonce at the O2 on May 1, 2013 in London, England.
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Kim Kardashian's Red Dress
Kim Kardashian, in a red dress, departs from their boat ride in Mykonos, Greece, April 27, 2013.
Kim K Sports Red Pants
Kim Kardashian leaves Los Angeles County Superior Court after a hearing in her divorce from Kris Humphries, April 12, 2013.
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Kim K Rocks Red Pants
Kim Kardashian and sister Kourtney were spotted arriving at the Westlake Hotel, filming their reality show in Calabasas on Friday, April 5, 2013.
Pregnant Kim K Rocks Short Skirt
Who said pregnant women shouldn't wear leather and heels? Kim Kardashian sported a short leather skirt for an appearance on "The Tonight Show" March 28, 2013.
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Kim K Hides Her Baby Bump
Kim Kardashian posted this image of herself on March 23, 2013 getting acupuncture. The pregnant reality star wrote, "Oh so relaxing..."
Kim K Flashes Black Bra
Pregnant Kim Kardashian hid her baby bump under a giant black skirt during lunch with her friend, Robin Antin, in Los Angeles, Calif., March 22, 2013.
Curvy Kim K Eats Ice Cream
Kim Kardashian flashed her black bra while arriving in a sheer top at Los Angeles airport, LAX, from Atlanta, March 18, 2013. Earlier that day, the pregnant reality star tweeted a photo of herself with pal Rachel Roy with the caption, "Taking off! Miss my baby already but have my bestie with me @rachel_roy."
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Kim K's First Pregnant Shoot
Kim Kardashian isn't ditching her curve hugging dresses just because she's pregnant. The reality star stepped out in Beverly Hills Feb. 21, 2013 in a chic black and white dress that showed off her growing bump. The 32-year-old is due in July.
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Kim Kardashian Stuns in White
Pregnant Kim Kardashian was all business when she was spotted walking to a meeting in Beverly Hills, Calif., wearing skinny white jeans and Christian Loubouton heels. Feb. 28, 2013.
Kim Kardashian Stuns in White
Kim Kardashian looks lovely in a white pantsuit as she leaves her house in Beverly Hills, March 2, 2013.
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Kim Kardashian and Her Sisters
Kim Kardashian shares pictures of herself with her sisters on Instagram, March 8, 2013.
Kim K's Sweet Tooth
Kim Kardashian flaunts her growing curves while lunching with best friend Brittny Gastineau and Simon Huck in Beverly Hills, Calif. on March 15, 2013. The pregnant reality star seems to have acquired a sweet tooth during her pregnancy and enjoyed an ice cream cone.
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Pregnant Kim Kardashian shows off her growing baby bump while pumping gas on Mar. 11, 2013. Earlier the reality star was pulled over by police, reportedly for having tinted windows.
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Kim Kardashian Bonds with Sisters
On the latest episode of "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami," Kim Kardashian underwent a facial that used her own blood. The procedure, which is supposed to give skin a younger-looking appearance, involves drawing blood from the arm, spinning out the platelets, and splattering on the face with tiny needles. "I love trying anything that makes you look and feel youthful," the realty star said.
Kim K Shows Off Her Baby Bump
Kim Kardashian hasn't been shy on hiding her baby bump. The reality star is stripping down to a bikini for Du Jour magazine and her first photo shoot as a pregnant woman.
DuJour Magazine
Kim K Like You Haven't Seen Her
Kim Kardashian's tiny black tank top could hardly contain her breasts when she was snapped arriving at the gym in Los Angeles on Feb. 15, 2013.
Kim K Strikes Sultry Pose
Kim Kardashian cuts a sultry figure for the March issue of Elle, on newsstands Feb. 19, 2013. Lady Gaga's fashion director Nicola Formichetti created the reality star's dark and moody look with dramatic eye makeup and big hair.
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Pregnant Kim K in Bright Pink
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian wears a pink dress while her and boyfriend rapper Kanye West visit the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 9, 2013.
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Kim K Shows Off Baby Bump
Kim Kardashian is pregnant with her first child and she's not afraid to hide her growing tummy. The reality star stepped out in Los Angeles Feb. 7, 2013 wearing a black jumpsuit with a sheer top.
Kim K Can't Resist McDonald's
Kim Kardashian opted for leggings and a black shirt that showed off her pregnant belly while running errands in Los Angeles, Jan. 31, 2013. The reality star is working with celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson to keep her in top shape during her pregnancy.
Pacific Coast News
Kim K Hides Her Baby Bump
Even Kim Kardashian can't resist her pregnancy cravings. The reality star, who is pregnant with her first child, shared a photo on Twitter of a McDonald's McGriddle sandwich. "Just one bite! #McGriddle #MyFave," she tweeted.
Kim K Hits Gym
Kim Kardashian hid her baby bump in a short lace black dress for her guest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jan. 29, 2013. The reality star also shared a photo on Twitter of her four diamond rings. "Twinkle twinkle little star," she tweeted with the photo.
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Kim K's Sexy Photo Shoot
Even with a baby on the way, Kim K's hitting the gym. Kardashian donned all black for a Los Angeles sweat session on Jan. 29, 2013.
Splash News
Kim Rocks Signature Look While She Still Can
Kim Kardashian is known for her sex appeal but the reality star donned a veil with haute couture for the cover of Arabian magazine Hia, a leading luxury lifestyle magazine for Arab women. The concept for the shoot, created by the mag's creative director Mohieb Dahabieh, was to re-inflate an air of mystery into the over exposed star.
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Kim K Curvy in Cut Outs
Don't these two make an interesting-looking pair? Kim Kardashian dressed her growing baby bump in a brocade, electric yellow peplum dress while making the talk show rounds in NYC on Jan. 15, 2013. Sister Kourtney Kardashian came along in a massive fur coat.
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Pregnant Kim K Goes See-Through
Pregnancy isn't stopping Kim Kardashian's style. The reality TV star showed off her curves in an electric blue cut out dress while grabbing dinner in Miami on Jan. 6, 2013.
Kim K Bundles her Bump in Sheer Top and Pencil Skirt
Kim Kardashian wore a sheer blouse while hosting a Cowboys Dance Hal eventl in Calgary, Canada on Jan. 4, 2013.
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Kim K Lounges in Lingerie
Kim K might want to size up. The reality star was popping out of her crop top and leather peplum skirt while filming an episode of "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami" in Miami Beach on Dec. 12.
Kim K Digs the Gold
Kim Kardashian's back in her skivvies for the French magazine Factice. Kardashian poses in a variety of lace and fur getups for the fashion mag.
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Kim K Greeted by Fans, Protesters in Bahrain
A gold Rolex isn't bling enough for Kim Kardashian. She Instagrammed a photo of her heavily accessorized arm on Dec. 4, featuring the Rolex and big Celine bangles. Her caption: "Gold rush!"
Kim Kardashian in Bahrain
TV star Kim Kardashian speaks to fans in Riffa, Bahrain, Dec. 1, 2012. Just hours after reality TV star Kim Kardashian gushed about her impressions of Bahrain, riot police fired tear gas to disperse more than 50 hardline Islamic protesters denouncing her presence in the Gulf kingdom.
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Kim K Lets Feet Do the Talking
Kim Kardashian chose an ... interesting outfit to celebrate the opening of Millions of Milkshakes in Kuwait City on Nov. 29. The reality star wore a futuristic white dress with see-through mesh panels that showed a lot of skin. Maybe she was trying to bring all the boys to the yard?
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Kim K Stuns at Marine Ball
After a slew of tweets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Kim Kardashian is back in more familiar territory, promoting boyfriend Kanye West through Twitter. She tweeted photos of shoes designed by Italian heel crafter Giuseppe Zanotti in honor of West's "Cruel Summer" album, though she may have drawn more attention to her body than the shoes by seemingly not wearing pants.
Kim K Tweets Photo of Her Booty
Sgt Martin Gardner couldn't help but stare at Kim Kardashian when she accompanied him to the Marine Corps Ball in North Carolina Nov. 15. The reality star wore a scarlet Roland Mouret dress that showcased her famous curves.
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Kim K Tweets Pic of Her Booty
Kim Kardashian couldn't help but snap a photo Nov. 13, 2012 of her famous booty. The reality star shared a photo of her clothed bottom while she lounged at home with pal Larsa Pippen. "We are being so lazy! @larsapippen & I can't get up for dinner!" she tweeted with the photo.
Kim K Shows Off Hourglass
Kim Kardashian stepped out with dark circles under her eyes and marks on her face when she returned to Miami from Europe, Nov. 11, 2012. The normally made up star went casual and almost make up free as she shopped around Miami.
Kim K Shows Off Hourglass
Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian are seen arriving at their hotel in London, Nov. 7, 2012.
Splash News
Kim K Wears Tight Top and Pencil Skirt
Kim Kardashian showed off her hourglass figure as she left her hotel in Miami Oct. 23, 2012. The reality star, who turned 32 Oct. 21, wore a tight crop top and pencil skirt with a gold belt. She paired the outfit with gold t-bar Louboutin shoes and a side braid.
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Kardashian in Skintight Leather
Kim Kardashian opted for a wedding dress inspired look to celebrate her 32nd birthday with boyfriend Kanye West in Italy, Oct. 21, 2012. West, 35, whisked his girlfriend away for a surprise trip with stops in Rome, Florence and Venice. "Italy is so beautiful! Best Birthday ever!!!" the reality star tweeted Oct. 19.
White Hot Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian showed off her infamous curves while shopping in Miami Beach, Fla., Oct. 2, 2012. The reality star showed some serious cleavage in an unbuttoned jean top which she matched with an electric blue leather pencil skirt that zipped up the back.
A Fashion Don't For Kim K.?
Kim Kardashian chose a white leather dress for dinner with the Kadashian clan at Prime 112 in Miami Beach, Fla., Sept. 30, 2012. While the rest of the family went casual, the 31-year-old reality star paired white and pink Givenchy stiletto booties with her skin tight dress. Kardashian is in Miami to film "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami."
Kim Kardashian Adopts
Is it a skirt or shorts? It's a skort! Kim Kardashian steps out in a grey sleeveless "skorts-suit" that appeared to be shorts from the front and a skirt from the back, while shopping with a friend in Miami Beach, Fla., on Sept. 24, 2012.
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Kim, Kanye Take Love to New Heights
Kim Kardashian's now a mom ... to a cat. The reality star adopted a Teacup Persian kitten named Mercy and debuted it to her Twitter followers on Sept. 16. Kardashian named the cat after the song "Mercy" from boyfriend Kanye West's upcoming album, "Cruel Summer."
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Kim, Kanye Take Love to New Heights
Kim Kardashian is seen at LAX Airport, Sept. 11, 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif.
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Kim, Kanye Take Love to New Heights
Kim Kardashian posted this image on her twitter page saying, "during and After", Sept. 4, 2012.
Another White Wedding for Kim Kardashian?
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have taken their love to new heights. The two hopped on helicopter to New York Sept. 2. Her friend Jonathan Cheban tweeted this photo.
Kim Kardashian's Boudoir Snap
Could wedding bells for Kim Kardashian be around the corner again? The reality TV star posted this photo of herself in a very bridal looking Emilio Pucci gown on Instagram on Aug. 28 with the caption "Late night fitting." She's still waiting for the divorce from Kris Humphries to be finalized.
Kim Kardashian's Sexy Night Photo Shoot
Think Kim Kardashian really wears <i>this</i> to bed? The reality TV star tweeted this pic with the caption "Nighty night!" from the set of a photo shoot on Aug. 27.
Kim Kardashian Behind Bars
Kim Kardashian posted a photo of herself to her Instagram of the reality star in a sexy photo shoot in Hawaii. "Night Shoot," she tweeted along with the photo Aug. 16, 2012. Kardashian was in Hawaii on vacation with boyfriend, Kanye West.
Kim Swims: Underwater Bikini Pic
On the Aug. 26, 2012 episode of "Drop Dead Diva" on Lifetime, Kim Kardashian's character, relationship expert Nikki LePree, will end up behind bars. During Kardashian's last appearance on the show, LePree had scammed Stacy Pakery (April Bowlby) out of all her savings and skipped town. LePree lands in jail because Pakery has too many parking tickets.
Kim Tweets Teeny Bikini Pic
Kim tweeted a picture with the caption, "Swim Good."
Kim Tweets Teeny Bikini Pic
Kim Kardashian posted a photo of her famous, sexy curves in a teeny bikini on her Instagram account Aug. 2, 2012. The photo, she insisted, was not digitally altered. "No filter, no Photoshop," she tweeted alongside the photo.
Kim K.'s Tight Pants
Kim Kardashian paid homage to actress Sophia Loren during a recent photo shoot, and she shared snaps from it with her Twitter followers. "Finding my inner Sophia Loren," she tweeted, adding later, "I love playing dress up."
The Kardashians
Another day, another new outfit for Kim Kardashian. The reality TV star showed off her figure in New York on July 29, 2012.
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The Kardashians
Kris Jenner takes pictures at Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian Odom's personal appearance to promote their "Unbreakable Bond" fragrance at Perfumania on June 7, 2012 in Orange, California.
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The Kardashians
Kourtney Kardashian shops on May 18, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
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The Kardashians
Kourtney Kardashian, Scott Disick and Mason Disick in Manhattan on April 23, 2012.
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The Kardashians
Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian in Manhattan on April 24, 2012.
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The Kardashians
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The Kardashians
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The Kardashians
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The Kardashians
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Rush Delivery
For an additional charge of $15 per address, we can rush delivery to most destinations. This service is not available for some oversize items, items shipped directly from the supplier (including perishable and custom-manufactured items), out-of-stock items and items to be shipped outside the contiguous 48 states.
Return Policy
At Williams-Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. If, within 90 days, you are not completely satisfied with your purchase for any reason, please return the item for an exchange or refund of the merchandise value. View Full Return Policy.