I posted a new Richard Wiseman 59” video on my Dutch language blog on the 2D:4D ratio that actually surprised me. The great thing about blogging is that other people than start to react. This video was sent to me as a reaction by Geert Van Damme and it’s very interesting and it doesn’t surprise me that it won the 2013 Mid-America EMMY Award for best “Informational/Instructional: Feature Segment”.

Background of this Award-winning video:

Most people, including many evolutionary biologists, believe that men are slightly better navigators than women because of the division of labor in early human Hunter-Gatherer societies. The story goes that those with superior navigation skills were more likely to return home to pass on their genes and evolution took care of the rest. But Rhodes and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a way to put this long-held theory to the test.

Rhodes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program, Institute for Genomic Biology and a full-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute’s NeuroTech Group.