You’ve probably heard or come across this greeting, likely in your professional life: “To Whom It May Concern.” It’s commonly used as the opening line in a letter or email to people we don’t know, and ...

Sigmund Freud famously confessed he had no idea what women want. Charles Darwin, however, had a hunch. He thought that women, like other creatures, want to propagate their genes. Where it gets ...

I fielded a question recently about one of my favorite subjects: “whomever.” Here’s the email: “Normally I have no difficulty with who/whom. I do when it comes to a sentence like ‘Give it to ...

Raise your hand if you know how to use whom. Now keep it raised if you’re confident you can explain its use in the following sentence: “One would do well to ask whom that was and by what means the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ann Hanley nearly choked on her cornflakes – all due to my wayward “who” in August. Shocked, she had to email, “Whatever has happened to ...

This is where choice copying in mate selection comes in. The basic idea is that females looking for a male partner are, in part, swayed by a male's ability to attract other females. If this happens, ...