This is not about genetics; it's about pubertal androgens, and while there is a genetic influence, that can be affected by a number of other factors. Remember that article on digit ratio and penis size that got hyped in the blogosphere recently? That was about fetal androgens.

Hate to snark, but it sounds like Role Models meets Your Highness.

Less exposure to predators, hence less extrinsic mortality and so less intrinsic morality as a result of antagonistic pleiotropy. Like bird longevity. Hell, I don't know.

Parallax as a tentacle monster = GL tentacle hentai? Poor Hal!

All good points. VD should get kudos for being a serial that doesn't say 'screw continuity, logic, and the fans, we'll just paper it over with another layer of mumbo jumbo' (see: Heroes, Lost). And for being more morally complex and conflicted than the usual 'faces vs heels' of network dramas.

Based on the trailer and posters, Colin Farrell's Jerry Dandridge reminds me of his Steve the Skeev, Merv the Perv's (Chris Parnell) cousin in that SNL sketch. Especially that "gives off a scent" line in the trailer.

Why, I never - a YA book featuring teens in a fight for survival in a dismal future? What a game-changingly novel concept!

Besides the classic Lifeforce, other space vampire movies streaming on Netflix are Queen of Blood, It! The Terror From Beyond Space, and Planet of the Vampires.

Cars 3: The Mass Graves Of The Flesh-Creatures That Used To Parasitize Us.

Very clever mockery of the back-to-Eden fads from the Paleolithic diet to barefoot running to nudism. This yearning to return to an idealized pre-industrial, even pre-agricultural, past is born out of comfort, affluence, and leisure.

"my opinion is invalid?"

Well, maybe.

Kendrick steals the mediocre movie Camp in the scene where she does a rendition of Ladies Who Lunch.

Have you seen Adventureland and The Runaways?

Orlando - good choice! Well, the movie anyway. I didn't read the book.

Great as in good or great as in influential and important?

Yeah, any discipline - and there are a lot of them - that relies on barely angled lines through chocolate chip cookie graphs is going to have these kinds of problems.

"Every subsequent attempt to replicate these initial findings has instead shown that babies resemble their fathers and mothers equally, and if anything it might actually be the mother that they more closely resemble."

Blame Alan Moore. He revised Swamp Thing, a simple 'science gone wrong' hero monster, by creating a rich mythic backstory, making him the latest incarnation of the earth's champion in mystic communion with The Green. Even Man-Thing (cheekily) and Solomon Grundy were enlisted into the Moore-initiated ST mythos, so…

Alien. When it was just a guy in a rubber suit with a design by Giger that would be ripped off countless times, including by Giger himself. We didn't know then the movie's borrowing from It! The Terror From Beyond Space and Planet of the Vampires. One thing Alien had that those movies didn't (besides the…