What a touching read. Your discussion of evolutionary phenomenology is new to me and absolutely enlightening.
I'll add a couple relevant links:
- Aella on chimpanzees vs bonobos is your island lizard example irl. Two populations of the same species were separated by a river; one territory is bountiful, the other isn't. This is a natural experiment in evolutionary psychology of the sort you describe; their patterns of behavioral and sexual differences are fascinating.
- The discussion of gene polymorphism reminds me of Razib Khan's oeuvre at Unsupervised Learning. Not one blog post in particular though.
@ControlsFreak I was visiting the US with my girlfriend when she developed Lyme Disease. She'd forgotten to get travel health insurance. This is when we were fully hit by the absurdity of the American system.
Lyme Disease can lead to lifelong disability if allowed to develop. Fortunately, it can be safely & fully treated with <$10 worth of antibiotics. We knew that she had it, we knew how to treat it, we just had to find some doctor that would give us a permission slip to buy the medication.
We visited or called a number of walk-in clinics. All were members only (???). We called urgent care and could not obtain even an upper bound on how much a dx + rx would cost. Hundreds? Thousands? Who knows lol.
We seriously lucked out in the end. We stopped at a gym to shower and the lady at the front told us of a clinic run by an ex-marine PA in the back of the local grocery store. $60 in and out. We got to see his drone videos of the Olympic coast. If you're ever sick or injured near Forks WA you will find no one better than Jonas Merrill at the Beaver Clinic.
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