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To better understand extremism, we need to look not only at the evils perpetrated but also at the admirable aspects of ourselves.

The theory of major transitions provides an all-encompassing framework to explore both the opportunities and challenges facing humanity in the Internet Age.

Signaling territoriality of home-playing athletes might contribute to the home advantage.

Social constructivism is on trial for being an academic fraud. Can it be rescued and does it have valid points to make about science after all?

Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible."

Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have been entwined throughout their histories. Yet modern macroeconomic theory has yet to incorporate developments in evolutionary theory during the last few decades.

The ideology behind extremist violence looks remarkably like the “moral sentiments” of empathy, indignation, and shame that are presumed to confer fitness advantages in human social interactions.

That wretched hive of scum and quackery that he’s infested almost since its beginning The Huffington Post.

Since cultural evolution is fueled by the creative efforts of human minds which, by anyone’s definition, are conscious, it would seem that consciousness plays a central role in cultural evolution.

Religious systems that lose their adaptability become dangerous to the societies in which they exist, and to themselves, because they absolutize the relative.

The evolutionary principles of variation and selection are relevant to finance because the practices of banks and related financial institutions are selected by their impact on profits.