This View of Life
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It is easy to imagine modern society falling apart due to the collapse of truth-telling norms. Nevertheless, thinking about norms from an evolutionary perspective provides grounds for hope.

Evolution may not have programmed us to care about advantageous inequity, but we have developed the cognitive and moral wherewithal to do so.

Evolutionary theory offers a remarkably rich and beautiful story about how we came to be, but as of yet this story has not been told compellingly enough to reach beyond the halls of academia.

Universes might evolve to be ‘selfish’—that is, as if they were interested in propagating their own kind—just as biological organisms act as if they were interested in spreading their own genes.

Seven take-home points helping guide us from early forefathers to today’s dads.

At the heart of Kevin Laland's new book is a “cultural drive” mechanism, whereby selection for accurate, efficient information transmission shaped the evolution of the primate brain and intelligence.

A genome that can respond to environmental feedback and operate in many possible, unpredictable conditions would be even more likely to survive and reproduce than a rigid one.

Inter-disciplinarity is something that most universities want but might not be able to achieve without organizational change.

A conversation with Geoff Mulgan, founder of the think tank Demos and current chief executive of Nesta, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, on his new book "Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World".

Our geopolitical world seems increasingly unstable, and some see this instability as a threat to Humanist values. But do not fear.