This View of Life
Magazine

An interview with Richard Lenski, who has become world renowned for presiding over the longest running evolutionary experiment of all time, on the bacterium E. coli, which has now exceeded 65,000 generations.

There is no better outlet for accessible writing that connects the science of evolutionary thinking to pressing and complex societal issues than, This View of Life.

Hint: It’s not because chimpanzees are nicer.

How can cooperative forms of governance overcome disruptive self-serving behaviors? The history of Freemasonry may hold the answer.

Can our species collectively cultivate the socio-cultural changes required to make our shared visions of humanistic values become real on a global scale?

Aggressive queens may be the ‘winners’ within their groups, but purely cooperative groups outlast those containing aggressive queens.

What separates us from the apes is a sequence of social and technological revolutions, one major change after the other in the life experiences of human communities. The emergence of language was one such revolution, not the last and definitely not the first.

The world appears to be tiring of the New Atheism movement, which burst upon the scene about five years ago with the so-called Four Horsemen: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

Peter Turchin discusses his new book "Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth". Ultrasociety chronicles 10,000 years of human history from an evolutionary perspective, shows how warfare paradoxically caused us to become the greatest cooperators on earth, and begins to point the way toward a future without war.

The co-editor of the #1 academic Journal in the Behavioral Sciences shares her views on Evolutionary Psychology.