christmas in april

okay, so the coolest thing happened to me yesterday. i was talking to frank mcandrew about some random evolutionary psych thought that had popped into my head, and i suddenly realized that last june before i presented my thesis in germany, i joined HBES (human behavior & evolution society) and paid for a 2 year membership, which is supposed to include a subscription to Evolution & Human Behavior, a completely excellent journal. (so excellent, in fact, that they stone cold rejected my thesis.) so anyway, i emailed the membership guy, forwarded him my membership confirmation email, and he said "oops. i guess next week you're going to get a rather large package in the mail." so, next week, i'm going to get 10 issues of Evolution & Human Behavior in the mail. it will, i predict, be the happiest day of my life. i also predict that i will call in sick to work all week and just lounge happily in bed all day long reading about mate selection and mismatch theory.

also, for carin and/or bogdan: what's the name of the theory that states that we don't want to mate with our brothers and sisters because there's a mechanism by which we aren't attracted to people with whom we spend a large amount of time as children? it's a long name that starts with an M or an H i think...and i can't really look it up because i don't know what it's called. i think it was in the pinker book.