This View of Life
Magazine

Getting beyond fight or flight

Shame evolved to help us to maintain conscientious behavior, but in our modern world it may trigger avoidance and isolation.

In a world grappling with complex polycrises, we need a perspective on leadership and social change based on living systems' timeless capacity to adapt and co-exist.

ProSocial World is focused on enhancing psychological flexibility to cultivate a prosocial cultural globally, including in the healthcare sector.

Darwin’s legacy transcends science, offering us a profound view of life that bridges the ostensible gap between science and spirituality.

We’ve long suspected that natural foods are better for health, but there are now clues that living foods might play a crucial part in our evolutionary history.

Enduring social groups must be strong along two dimensions, a concept that can be illustrated with an analysis of Engaged Buddhism.

Literature and other forms of fiction are integral when human communities scrutinize their mating regime and negotiate new practices, such as with the West’s three sexual revolutions of 1200, 1750, and 1968.

In our appreciation of life, our human constructed world, and art, let us celebrate not just infinite potential but the full evolutionary process.

Human sleep presents a paradox: we are the shortest sleeping primate, yet we have the largest brain. If sleep is for the brain, why do humans exhibit the least sleep?

Darwin’s thoughts on humor presaged our modern scientific understanding of its nature and its cultural manifestations