This View of Life
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Given the tension between our evolved tribalism and the global collective action problem of managing our planet, how can we hope to avoid the climate tipping point?

We apply the same facial judgments to cars as we do to human faces.

my advice to those idealistic students after my own tortured career in interdisciplinary environmental science.

Google Earth technology for looking at cells.

A new discovery by Matt Friedman at Oxford University is providing paleontologists with clues to the flatfish’s seemingly unsolved history.

A modern understanding of human cultural evolution reveals the conventional laissez-faire view of entrepreneurship as too simple.

Researchers increasingly seek to examine the evolution of complex political, economic, and social systems from many perspectives, yet politicians and others may be tempted to reduce dynamic systems to one or two variables.

Both liberal and conservative narratives about regulation are like prisons that confine reasonable people to predetermined choices. A new narrative based on the biological concept of regulation can set us free. Regulation is one of the most charged words in politics. If you’re a conservative, then you’re likely to think that regulation is a bad thing that erodes personal responsibility and prevents the free enterprise system from working its magic.

People consistently chose to be vengeful or kind, with little in between, the researchers found.

Disease-causing pathogens–viruses, bacteria and protists–have geographies, both in terms of where they can be found and how common they are within those regions.

The new theory provides a physical foundation for general evolution dynamics.

The evolutionary reason behind humans' persistence of play well into adulthood.