Out of This World Relationships

Here‘s an interesting TED talk by Christopher Ryan, co-author of Sex at Dawn, on the evolution and Victorian fallacies of human sexuality.

As we colonize other bodies in the solar system, how will we keep healthy physical and emotional relationships? Can we continue to impose our modern, biased and incorrect preconceptions to what companionship should be, when there isn’t the same abundance of options as are available to someone living on Earth?

Ancestral Traits

We work hard to overcome a lot of our natural tendencies in order to cope with modern living, and human biology changes drastically in zero- or low-gravity environments. This article from io9 is a good read for some examples of ancestral traits we all recognize.

“Most Unfortunate Design Flaws in the Human Body”