This View of Life
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While you may have heard of evolutionary psychology, this article is actually about the psychology of evolution itself. That is, the study of how evolutionary thinking develops and thrives across our social species, Charles Darwin being one particularly interesting case study.

Join Dr. Amanda Glaze in this insightful and engaging webinar as she discusses her research on teaching and learning evolution in the South and hear the insightful stories she has collected along the way.

Gossip is highly moral, sophisticated, and sensitive to context. Can we use this to improve our communication online and in society at large?

What can sports teach us about evolution?

Throughout evolutionary history, humans have had to deal with risk. Risk-sensitivity theory offers an explanation about when some people take excessive risks, and why.

Tobias Uller's projects revolve around the idea that plasticity – that is, environmental effects on phenotypes – can initiate and direct evolutionary diversification.

What can groundhogs teach us about our fake news epidemic?

In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut began what would come to be one of the longest-running experiments in biology. For the last 58 years they have been domesticating silver foxes and studying evolution in real time. But in 1952, seven years before this experiment began, Belyaev initiated a pilot study to determine whether or not his audacious ideas about domestication merited a full-fledged experiment. Here we tell that story.