who knew Fanny, in the 70's, was so good

Past all that and shifting gears, I'd have to cast my vote for all-time best musician and master of guitar work.......David Gilmour. Hands down!

The evolutionary perspective we take here highlights the fact that team aggression is predominately an activity of young males, and although it affects women it very often does not benefit them in a lasting way, as we will show. Women compete for resources for themselves and their offspring, and may even benefit from associations with the most aggressive, successful male leaders or groups, but their competition is not usually expressed with such violent destructiveness as among men. There are women gangsters, warriors, and terrorists, of course, just as there have been great female military leaders. But despite some fanciful misinterpretations of prehistory and anthropology, women have never shared men's propensity to band together spontaneously and sally forth to viciously attack their neighbors.

The same can be said for older males, who may well gain more from war as generals than the young do as foot soldiers, but who also generally have much more to lose. We will show that societies where the proportion of young males to older males is high are often particularly prone to conflict – and that one way to reduce the risk of violence is to empower women and maximize their role in society.

This is perhaps the most profound insight to come from taking an evolutionary perspective on war: empowering women reduces the risk of violent conflict. Far from being a politically correct notion of feminist philosophy, women's role in reducing the risk of war is born out by rigorous study and historical experience. We will argue that contemporary Western nations have a great opportunity to make the world more secure and reduce terrorism by doing everything they can to empower women who live in countries where they currently enjoy few choices and wield little or no political power.

There is a clear and important evolutionary link between this biological perspective on war and Martha's and my work in family planning. For most women, the first step toward autonomy and equality is the ability to choose when to have children, and how many to have. From Italy to Iran, it is an empirical fact that wherever women have access to modern family planning, family size always falls. This is of crucial interest at a time when rapidly growing human population stresses our infrastructure and social systems, and threatens what remains of the natural environment. Reducing birthrates can also have a dramatic effect on the prospects for peace by reducing competition for resources and lowering the ratio of testosterone-filled young men to older men and women in the population. By understanding this and other biological dynamics underlying war, we can begin to see our way toward taking real, effective action to reduce war's likelihood and limit its destructive potential.

Definitely an astounding technician, le petite juene fille

Soul, melody, blues roots?

Not so much

Great guitarists, and great musicians in general, use changes in tempo and empty space to make their music great.

Blind performance auditions, much research has proven, often results in the hiring of more women and minorities because it eliminates the opportunities for bias to influence who makes the cut.