1. • A new article entitled “Evolving Research on the Evolution of Male Androphilia” by Paul L. Vasey & Doug P. VanderLaan was published in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.
   

1. • A new article entitled “Female Homosexual Behavior and Inter-sexual Mate Competition in Japanese Macaques: Possible Implications for Sexual Selection Theory” by Paul L. Vasey, Jean-Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst & Doug P. VanderLaan was published in the journal, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
   

1. • A new article entitled “Comparative development of heterosexual and homosexual behaviors in free-ranging female Japanese macaques” by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst & Paul Vasey is available online at the webpage for the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior.
   

1. • Ground Breaking Paper Earns Vasey Lab Prestigious Award
   

1. • The Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality has awarded Doug P. VanderLaan, Zhiyuan (Lance) Ren and Paul L. Vasey the Ira and Harriet Reiss Theory Award for their article entitled, “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis”, which was published in the journal Human Nature. Doug will be giving a plenary address based on this work in November of next year at the 2015 SSSS Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 
   

1. • Hello Dolly!
   

1. • Paul’s former Post-Doctoral supervisor, Jim Pfaus, visited the Department of Neuroscience at the U of L and Paul had the honor of introducing him before his talk on “How Sexual Pleasure Links Neural Mechanisms of Sexual Arousal, Desire, Preference and Performance” Here’s a photo.
   

1. • Paul L. Vasey attended the 2014 Canadian Sex Research Forum Meeting October 24-26 in Kingston, Ontario. Paul was a member of the Scientific Program Committee for this year’s meeting.
   

1. • A book chapter by Paul L. Vasey & Doug VanderLaan entitled “Trasgendered Male Androphilia in the Human Ancestral Environment” was published in the edited volume, The Evolution of Sexuality. Thanks to the Editors, Todd Shackelford & Randy Hansen, who called our Samoan work “stunningly creative.” 
   

1. • Former lab member, Doug P. VanderLaan, says this is the coolest thing I will ever do.  Possibly....
   

1. • Paul L. Vasey appeared on CBC Radio’s Edmonton AM discussing his cross-cultural research with Barnaby Dixson on men’s beards, which was published in Behavioral Ecology.
   

1. • A commentary by Doug P. VanderLaan, Zachary H. Garfield, Mellissa J. Garfield, Jean-Baptiste Leca, Paul L. Vasey and Raymond B. Hames entitled “‘The Female Fertility-Social Stratification-Hypergyny’ Hypothesis of Male Homosexual Preference: Factual, Conceptual and Methodological Errors in Barthes et al.” was published in the journal Evolution & Human Behavior.
   

1. • Jean-Baptiste Leca gave a podium presentation at the International Society for Comparative Psychology Meetings in Bogata, Columbia on our inter-group study of sexual traditions in Japanese macaques:
   

Leca, J-B., Gunst, N., Ottenheimer-Carrier, L. & Vasey, P.L. (2014). Inter-group variation in non-conceptive sexual activity in female Japanese macaques: Could it be cultural? Presented at the International Society for Comparative Psychology Meeting, September 2014, Bogota, Columbia.

1. • A new article entitled “Development of Sexual Behavior in Free-Ranging Female Japanese Macaques” by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Nöelle Gunst, & Paul Vasey was published in the September issue of Developmental Psychobiology.
   

1. • A new article entitled “Intergroup variation in non-conceptive mounting behavior in Japanese macaques: could it be cultural?” by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Nöelle Gunst, Lydia Ottenheimer-Carrier & Paul Vasey was published in the August issue of Animal Behavior and Cognition.
   

1. • Barnaby Dixson gave a podium presentation at the International Conference on Human Ethology in Belem Brazil on our work pertaining to the evolution of men’s secondary sexual characteristics:
   

Dixson, B.J., Grueter, C.C., Isler, K., Vasey, P.L., Dixson, A.F., & Brooks, R.C. (2014). Sexual selection and the evolution of men’s secondary sexual characterstics.  Presented at the International Conference on Human Ethology, August 2014, Belem, Brazil.

1. • Heitor Fernandes gave a podium presentation at the Human Behavior and Evolution Meetings in Natal Brazil on our phylogenetic meta-analysis of homosexual behavior in primates:
   

Fernandes, H.B.F., Figueredo, A.J., Woodley, M.A., & Vasey, P.L. There’s something queer about primate sociality: Comparative phenotypic and evolutionary associations between sociality indicators and same-sex genital interactions.  Presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Meeting, July 2014, Natal, Brazil.

1. • Paul Vasey was appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science along with former lab members Doug VanderLaan and Jean-Baptiste Leca.
   

1. • Jessica Parker successfully defended her MSc thesis entitled “Facial Attractiveness Preferences: A Possible Mechanism for Understanding the Differential Reproduction of Women With and Without Androphilic Sons.”  Congratulations Jess and all the best with your future academic pursuits!
   

1. • Paul Vasey is extremely please to announce that Dr. Jean-Baptiste Leca is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge.  We’re very lucky to have him as a new colleague. Welcome aboard JB!
   

1. • A new article entitled “Male homosexual behavior in a free-ranging all-male group of Japanese macaques at Minoo, Japan” by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst and Paul Vasey was published in the July issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
   

1. • A new article entitled “Evidence of enhanced cognitive biases for maximizing indirect fitness in Samoan fa’afafine” by Doug VanderLaan & Paul Vasey was published in the July issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
   

1. • University of Lethbridge faculty member and artist Mary Kavanagh photographed Paul Vasey for her project entitled Love in the Institution.
   

1. • A homage to Paul Vasey’s wonderful Samoan research assistant Trisha entitled “In the Manner of a Bad Girl” was reprinted in the Chi-Chapter Tribune--a newsletter for Chicago’s cross-dressing community.
   

1. • Paul Vasey’s research on Japanese macaques and humans was discussed recently on a Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast “Can Animals Be Gay?”
   

1. • A Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast entitled “The Science of Beards” discusses research by Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey published in Behavioral Ecology, 23: 481-490.
   

1. • Paul Vasey was interviewed by Kathy Trang of UCLA’s Foundation for Psychocultural Research about his research on the evolution of male same-sex sexuality.  Part 1 of the interview can be accessed here and Part 2 of the interview can be accessed here.
   

1. • Dan Savage interviewed Paul Vasey on Savage Lovecast about research he conducted with Lesley Terry on Feederism.
   

1. • Paul Vasey gave an invited talk in the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience entitled “Evolving Research on the Evolution of Male Androphlia.”
   

1. • Research by my Post-Doctoral Fellows, Drs. Jean-Baptiste Leca and Noëlle Gunst indicates that the mona monkeys of Grenada are in peril.  Read about it in the Jamaica Observer.
   

1. • Jean-Baptiste Leca and Noëlle Gunst completed two months of fieldwork on mona monkeys in Grenada. 
   

1. • Jean-Baptiste Leca appeared on Grenadian television discussing our research on mona monkeys.
   

1. • A new article by Doug VanderLaan, Lanna Petterson, Ryan Mallard & Paul Vasey entitled “(Trans)gender role expectations and childcare in Samoa” is available online at the webpage for the Journal of Sex Research.
   

1. • A new article by Doug VanderLaan, Lanna Petterson & Paul Vasey entitled “Elevated childhood separation anxiety: An early developmental expression of heightened concern for kin in homosexual men?” is available online at the webpage for the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
   

1. • Scott Semenyna was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship to conduct research on cross-cultural aspects of bullying.  Congratulations Scott!
   

1. • Paul Vasey was quoted in an article entitled “Does Homosexuality Exist Within the Animal Kingdom?” that was published in the UK Edition of the International Business Times.
   

1. • Paul Vasey attended the Moving Trans* History Forward symposium in Victoria Canada. An article about the symposium appeared in Victoria’s Times Colonist and another one that appeared on the CBC News website.
   

1. • On March 15, Emma Yong gave a presentation (co-authored with Lanna Petterson & Paul Vasey) entitled  “Childhood Cross-sex Wishes and Their Association with Adult Sexual Orientation in Japan” at the Meeting of the Minds Conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. Great job Emma!
   

1. • On March 13, Paul Vasey was interviewed on the CBC radio program Homestretch about his research on the evolution of male androphilia.
   

1. • Paul Vasey was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.
   

1. • A new book chapter by Paul Vasey & Doug VanderLaan entitled “Evolutionary perspectives of male androphilia in humans” was published in the edited volume, Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior.
   

1. • Paul Vasey was interviewed for an article in the Belgian newspaper, De Standaard, entitled “Do animals become sexually aroused when they watch other members of their species having sex?”
   

1. • Lesley Terry & Paul Vasey published an entry in the Encyclopedia of Social Deviance entitled “Feederism”.
   

1. • An article in the BBC News Magazine entitled “The Evolutionary Puzzle of Homosexuality” discusses Paul Vasey’s research in Samoa.
   

1. • On February 15th Paul Vasey presented a talk entitled “Does elevated separation anxiety in feminine boys reflect prosocial tendencies rather than pathology? Nonclinical evidence from Canada and Samoa” at the World Association for Transgender Health meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.
   

1. • On February 8th Paul Vasey and Anne Perkins participated in a Q &A session following a screening of the documentary Survival of the Fabulous at the Myrna Loy Center for the Performing and Media Arts in Helena, Montana.  During the visit, Paul was lucky enough to visit Dr. Perkin’s ranch.  Here are some photos of Anne and Paul with Anne’s famous rams.
   

1. • An article in Helena, Montana’s Independent Record entitled “What does science know about homosexuality?” discusses the Nature of Things documentary Survival of the Fabulous that featured Paul Vasey’s research in Samoa.
   

1. • On February 6th Paul Vasey gave an invited lecture entitled “Comparative Evolutionary Research on Non-Conceptive Sexuality” at Carroll College in Helena, Montana.
   

1. • A new article entitled “Does Geographic Proximity Influence The Expression of Avuncular Tendencies in Canadian Androphilic Males?” by Miranda Abild, Doug VanderLaan & Paul Vasey was published in the January issue of the Journal of Cognition and Culture.
   

1. • An article in New Republic entitled “Want To Look Older and More Aggressive?  Grow a Beard, But Don’t Think It Will Help You With the Ladies” discusses research by Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey published in Behavioral Ecology, 23: 481-490.
   

1. • An article by Paul Vasey entitled “In the Manner of a Bad Girl” was published in the “Bad Girls” issue of Atrium, which was guest edited by Alice Dreger. The piece is a homage to my glorious research assistant Trisha.
   

1. •  Jean-Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst and Paul Vasey obtained a grant from the American Institute of Bisexuality to study bisexual behavior in male mona monkeys in Grenada.
   

1. • A new article entitled “Comparative Reproductive Output of Androphilic and Gynephilic Males in Samoa” by Paul Vasey, Jessica Parker and Doug VanderLaan was published in the February issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
   

1. • A different kind of fa’afafine in Palm Springs. Alatina Ioelu, Paul Vasey and Judy Garland at the fabulous Judy Show.
   

1. • Paul Vasey’s appearance on David Suzuki’s Nature of Things was listed as one of the top ten major happenings at the University of Lethbridge in 2013!