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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample

Got a problem? Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt can help

Carole Jahme: Evolutionary Agony Aunt
Carole Jahme, the Guardian's Evolutionary Agony Aunt

"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."

Charles Darwin had a wonderful way with words and as a nod to the great man's now infamous comment, we thought we'd try our hand at what you might call our very own fools' experiment.

We want to help you with your problems. They don't need to be huge ones and they don't need to involve your love life, though it's fine if they are and they do.

There's a catch, though. Our Agony Aunt is only allowed to dispense advice based on current evolutionary thinking. The rest we'll leave to the glossy magazines.

Carole Jahme, author of Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution, and star of the comedy show Carole Jahme is Sexually Selected, is on hand to agonise over your problems so you don't have to.


This article was amended on 22 November 2010. The invitation to send in questions for Carole to answer was deleted as the column has been discontinued.

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