Tim O’Reilly has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software” or “web 2.0” or “the Maker movement” or “government as a platform” or “the WTF economy,” he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas. He is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, and a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). He is also on the boards of Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox. His book, WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, was released by Harper Collins in October 2017.
John Shaver is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Religion Programme at the University of Otago. He is an evolutionary anthropologist whose work explores the complex relationships between religion, cooperation, and social inequality. He is also particularly interested in understanding cross-cultural and intra-cultural variation in fertility, and the impacts of family size on child development. To explore these issues, he has conducted research in the Czech Republic, Fiji, Mauritius, New Zealand and the United States.
Daniel T. O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and co-director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. His work focuses on the ways that researchers, policymakers, and practitioners can work together to leverage modern digital data (i.e., “Big Data”) to better understand and serve cities. His own work focuses on the behavioral and social dynamics of urban neighborhoods, particularly those that directly impact a place’s future upward (or downward) trajectory.
Scott J. Peters is a Professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. Situated in the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of “civic studies,” Scott centers his work as a scholar and educator on the project of advancing democratic varieties of public engagement in the academic profession. Specifically, he seeks to understand how academic professionals and students perceive and deal with conflicts, tensions, and dilemmas that arise when they engage with their non-academic partners in the public work of naming and framing problems, deciding what should be done about them, and acting to pursue cultural ideals and values and common and public interests. Beyond simply understanding, Scott seeks to improve higher education's public engagement work in ways that support and enhance rather than hinder and diminish people's voices, capacities, interests, power, and agency. To this end, he seeks to contribute to the project of advancing the theory and practice of public scholarship and civic professionalism in higher education. Scott also serves as Co-Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.
Nafees Hamid is a research fellow at ARTIS International, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague, and a Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust scholar in the University College London's Department of Security and Crime Science. His research focuses on the psychology of radicalization as well as the rise of right-wing nationalism in Europe. As a field researcher, he conducts ethnographic interviews, large-scale surveys, psychology field experiments, crime mapping, social network analysis, and neuroimaging studies. This broad range of studies has led him to be a visiting scholar at the Santa Fe Institute where he worked with faculty on developing mathematical complex systems models of radicalization based on his ethnographic and survey data; and a visiting scholar at the Neuroimaging Unit at the Autonomous University of Barcelona where worked with neuroscientists on conducting the first-ever brain scan studies of jihadist supporters and radicalized individuals. In Europe, his primary field sites are Barcelona, Paris, Lunel, Brussels, London, and Birmingham yet he works collaboratively with ARTIS’s expansive research network on various conflicts around the world. He earned his graduate degree in Cognitive Science from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and completed a double major in Cognitive Science and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Previous to joining ARTIS, his research primarily focused on moral and political psychology as well as the cognitive impacts of HIV/AID’s medication, early detection markers of autism, and the embodiment of language. He has worked with many political organizations that have researched and communicated the effects of private campaign contributions on political decision-making, in the US. His career started as a professional stage and screen actor in the US and he continues to write and consult on film and TV scripts related to radicalization and international conflicts.
Peter Boettke is a University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
As a teacher, Boettke is dedicated to cultivating enthusiasm for the economic way of thinking and the importance of economic ideas in future generations of scholars and citizens. He is also now the co-author, along with David Prychitko, of the classic principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne's The Economic Way of Thinking (12th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2009). His efforts in the classroom have earned him a number of distinctions including the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University and the George Mason University Alumni Association's 2009 Faculty Member of the Year award.
In 2005, Boettke received the Charles Koch Distinguished Alumnus award from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Jack Kennedy Award for Alumni Achievement from Grove City College. Boettke was the 2010 recipient of the Association of Private Enterprise Education’s Adam Smith Award as well as George Mason University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award. In 2012, Boettke received a doctorate honoris causa in Social Sciences from Universidad Francisco Marroquin. In 2013, Dr. Boettke received his second honorary doctorate from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania. Dr. Boettke served as President of the Southern Economics Association from 2015 - 2017 and President of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2016 - 2018. He also is the Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Nancy Folbre is Professor Emerita of Economics and Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College in the United States. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work. In addition to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the author of The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems (forthcoming in 2020 from Verso), the editor of For Love and Money: Care Work in the U.S. (Russell Sage, 2012), and the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2008), and The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001). She has also written widely for a popular audience, including contributions to the New York Times Economix blog, The Nation, and the American Prospect. You can learn more about her at her website and blog Care Talk.
Geoffrey Hodgson is Professor in Management for the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London. Geoffrey is a specialist in institutional and evolutionary economics, with a background in economics, philosophy, and mathematics. His research has applications to the understanding of organizations, organizational change, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development.
Hodgson is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics (ABS rank 3). He has published 18 academic books and over 150 academic articles, which he is the winner of the Schumpeter Prize 2014 for his book on Conceptualizing Capitalism.
Trygve Throntveit is Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in History at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in History in 2008. Dr. Throntveit teaches courses in US and international history, with a particular focus on the intellectual and cultural roots and consequences of US foreign policy and international relations. His research is focused on the intersection of philosophy, political ideology, public opinion, and policymaking in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, with particular emphases on philosophical pragmatism, progressive reform movements, and US relations with the wider world.
Dr. Throntveit is currently at work on two books: Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment explores the origins, content, and popular reception of Woodrow Wilson's domestic and foreign polices, culminating in a careful reconstruction of popular support for US participation in the League of Nations as well as a historically grounded alternative to current realist and social-constructivist theories of international relations. A shorter book, William James's Ethical Republic: A Moral and Political Study, is the first comprehensive treatment of William James's moral philosophy, political thought, practical reformism, and continuing relevance to American political history and political theory.
Melissa McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oakland University. She studies the evolved psychology of intergroup conflict, particularly how that function varies between the sexes as a result of an evolutionary history in which men and women faced distinct adaptive challenges in their interactions with outgroups. Her research also investigates the development of practical interventions to reduce bias between groups in real conflict, and large-scale interventions aimed at promoting minority students' persistence and success in STEM fields.
Susan Hanisch is the co-founder of the non-profit sustainability education organization GlobalESD.org, and a guest scientist at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Together with her husband, Dustin Eirdosh, Susan develops teacher training courses and educational resources to advance teaching and learning at the intersection of evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. By linking scientific perspectives on social change with students and classrooms seeking to make the world a better place, the aim of this work is to foster a more global discussion about where we are going in the light of where we all have come from.
Charles B. Strozier has a Harvard B.A. (magna cum laude), an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and has training as a research candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalytic training at TRISP in New York City. He is a Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; training and supervising analyst at the TRISP foundation; and a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (2001 and 2011) and was made an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2006. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including: Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed. His earlier books include Until The Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses in 2011; Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America; and with Terman, Jones, and Boyd, The Fundamentalist Mindset (2010). His prize-winning biography, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), has been translated into Japanese and Italian with translations into Hebrew and Chinese ongoing.
Joe Allen is a fellow primate who wonders why we ever came down from the trees. He's a graduate of Boston University's "Religion and Science" program who's kept his hands dirty as a land surveyor, communal farm hand, college lecturer, and for fifteen years now, climbing steel as an entertainment rigger. His writing appears in various outlets from left to right because he prefers liberty to security.
Lynda Frassetto, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF). She teaches and supervises both inpatient and outpatient nephrology at the University and the Veteran’s Adminstration hospitals. She has been doing research for many years on how diet influences acid-base balance and health, as well as research in drug interactions in transplantation, and most recently, setting up clinical trials for the bioartificial kidney system being developed at UCSF.
Joshua Tybur is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the emotion disgust, and how it can help us better understand pathogen avoidance, political attitudes, and moral punishment.
Randall Law is Professor of History at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches courses on Russia, modern Europe, and the history of terrorism. He is the author of Terrorism: A History (2nd ed., 2016, Polity Press) and the editor of The Routledge History of Terrorism (2015).
Daniel Glass is co-leader of PsychTable.org. He is a clinician and researcher in the disciplines of evolutionary and clinical psychology. Dr. Glass has published sixteen peer-reviewed scholarly articles in the fields of psychology, medicine, and evolutionary studies on subjects ranging from human emotions to peer bullying/victimization to Alzheimer’s disease. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Suffolk University and is currently a psychotherapist working with children, adolescents, and young adults at a private practice in Connecticut.
Dr. Glass has taught a number of college psychology courses, including evolution and behavior courses and has published papers in the field of evolution pedagogy. He is the former co-editor of the EvoS Journal, the official journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, and current president of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society (AEPS), dedicated to bridging the gap between evolutionary behavioral science research and applied domains of human endeavor.
Niruban Balachandran is co-leader of PsychTable.org. He has served in the World Bank since 2013, and his career has spanned more than 18 years in psychological science, education, and international development around the globe.
Mr. Balachandran was a winner of the World Bank's Innovation Challenge Prize, the Bradley M. Bloom Impact Award, and the International Society for Human Ethology's Linda Mealey Award. He is widely published in scholarly journals and print media, and is a frequently-invited speaker at international conferences. He is a Master of Public Administration (MPA) graduate of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Behavioral Insights Group, as well as a Bachelor of psychology (Honors) graduate from Rutgers. In 2019, he was honored by the New America Foundation as a Next Generation Leader.
Alan has been part of Prosocial’s development team since its inception in 2013, and is also a documentary filmmaker. His environmental documentaries have won awards for journalism, photography, and editing. They have been broadcast on PBS stations nationwide, and educational versions have been distributed to schools internationally. His most recent documentary, Seeing the Forest, illustrates how Elinor Ostrom’s core design principles can evolve naturally in groups.
In addition to making films about Prosocial and its use in a variety of sectors, he is also developing initiatives to implement Prosocial within the environmental community, with a special focus on Regenerative Agriculture.
Glenn Geher is Professor of Psychology as well as Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Glenn has taught several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels – including Statistics, Social Psychology, and Evolutionary Psychology – and has won the New Paltz Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, along with Chancellor’s Awards for both Teaching and Research Excellence from the State University of New York. First and foremost, Glenn is a teacher, and his primary goal is to educate and support his students and work to facilitate their success as they develop across their careers.
Antoine Marie is a Ph.D. student at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure - PSL University in Paris, France working in the field of the naturalistic — cognitive and evolutionary — social sciences. He also works with the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence in Ben Guérir, Morocco. With a background in philosophy, sociology, and psychology, he conducts psychology experiments and utilizes evolutionary theory to investigate the ultimate functions and proximate nuts and bolts of human tribalism (e.g. ideological polarization, extremism, 'self-sacrifice') and 'moral rigidity' (folk deontologism, sacralization processes, folk meta-ethical objectivism).
Max Abrahms is an Associate Professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University. His research focuses on terrorism. He has held affiliations with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Empirical Studies of Conflict project at Princeton University and Stanford University, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University, the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, the political science department at Johns Hopkins University, and the Belfer Center at Harvard.
Katerina Papatheodorou is a psychology Ph.D. student at Georgia State University and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Violent Extremism Research Group. Her research focuses on the psychology of terrorism. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how and why people disengage from violent extremist groups.
John Horgan is Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University’s Department of Psychology where he also directs the Violent Extremism Research Group (VERG). Professor Horgan is one of the world’s leading experts on terrorist psychology. His work is widely published, with books including The Psychology of Terrorism (now in its second edition and published in over a dozen languages worldwide), Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists; Walking Away from Terrorism, Leaving Terrorism Behind, and Terrorism Studies: A Reader. He is an Editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, Consulting Editor of American Psychologist, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several additional publications including Legal and Criminological Psychology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Journal of Strategic Security. He is a member of the Research Working Group of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He has held positions at the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), Penn State, University of St. Andrews, and University College, Cork. Professor Horgan’s research has been featured in such venues as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, CNN, Vice News, Rolling Stone Magazine, TIME, Nature, Scientific American and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Clark McCauley is Research Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College. His research interests include stereotypes, group dynamics, and the psychological foundations of ethnic conflict and genocide. He is co-author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (2006), co-author of Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us (2011, second edition 2017), co-author of The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World (2018), and Founding Editor emeritus of the journal Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism and Genocide. He is a lead investigator with the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).
Colin Holbrook is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced. His program of research explores decision-making under contexts of threat, with particular focus on aggression, coalitional psychology, morality, and the attribution of mental states.
Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of California, Merced who has published research in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, and threat assessment. Using interdisciplinary approaches, Dr. Hahn-Holbrook investigates how our rapidly changing world (in terms of technology, nutrition, employment patterns, etc.) impacts our mental and physical health.
Subrena E. Smith is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. She is a Philosopher of Biology whose work focuses on human behavioral variation and conceptions of human difference, methodological problems with evolutionary explanations of human behavior, and the concept of the organism. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell Univesity.
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Sophia Moskalenko received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Her research on terrorism and radicalization has been presented in scientific conferences, government briefings, radio broadcasts, and international television newscasts. As a research fellow at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC-START) she has worked on research projects commissioned by the Department of Defence, Department of Homeland Security and Department of State. With Clark McCauley, she has co-authored the award-winning Friction: How Conflict Radicalizes Them and Us, and The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in the Selfish World.
Mark Sedgwick is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. He taught previously at the American University in Cairo. He studied history at Oxford University in England and then did his Ph.D. at the University of Bergen in Norway. He works on modern Egypt, Sufism, and issues related to terrorism.
Rose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. (Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology) from Stanford University and has taught at Cornell and UCSB. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of five books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over two hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior.
David P. Barash - Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, animal behavior and evolutionary genetics - is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, where he taught from 1973 - 2017. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, numerous op-eds and other articles in on-line journals, and author, co-author or editor of 40 books, most recently Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science To See Our Species As We Really Are (Oxford University Press, 2018), co-author with Judith Eve Lipton of Strength Through Peace: How demilitarization Led To Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World Can Learn From A Tiny, Tropical Nation. (Oxford University Press, 2018), as well as Approaches to Peace 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2018) and co-author with Charles Webel of Peace and Conflict Studies 4th ed. (Sage Publications, 2018).
Hammad Sheikh is a postdoctoral researcher at the New School for Social Research and a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (Oxford University). He studies the link between different building blocks of human sociality (e.g., altruism, common values, shared experiences) and intergroup violence (including religious extremism). To this end, he collaborates with researchers across the world (e.g., Palestinian Territories, Morocco, Northern Ireland) to study populations with direct exposure to violent conflicts, such as active combatants. His work has been published in leading academic journals, featured in the popular press, and has contributed to briefings to the State Department and the Department of Defense, among others. He also consults on monitoring and evaluation of CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) programs.
Edward H. Hagen received his BA in mathematics from UC Berkeley, spent some time working in the organic polymer lab of Bruce Novak, then at UC Berkeley, before deciding to pursue anthropology at UC Santa Barbara, where he received Ph.D. in 1999. Shortly thereafter he took a postdoc position in Peter Hammerstein's group at the Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin. He moved to Washington State University in 2007.
See more here: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
Stephanie Welch has been an ancestral health advocate since 2010. Her penchant for disruptive anthropology has led her to investigate and challenge many commonly held beliefs and taboos about being a modern human. In addition to the original paleo focus on how to determine what constitutes a species-appropriate diet, some of these topics include: how the wearing of shoes has undermined our childhood biomechanical development; how extensive are the physical, psychological, and sexual repercussions of infant genital mutilation; and how sexual commerce relates to male and female interpersonal dynamics in tribal versus modern society.
In the spirit of the Federalist Papers, Publius is a collective pseudonym for the group of people organizing this collection of essays.
Steve Turpin, OD, MS is a resident physician at Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, OR. He specializes in the use of medically necessary contact lenses due ocular pathology. His primary research interests include myopia control and prevention and lens design for orthokeratology.
Nando Pelusi is the co-founder of Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society (AEPS), and maintains a private practice as a clinical psychologist in the heart of NYC—aka, Mismatch Central. He has worked for over 15 years with Albert Ellis, a founder of CBT. He also wrote the long-time column on applied evolutionary psychology Neanderthink, in Psychology Today.
Dr. James Steele is Principal Investigator for ukactive’s Research Institute and an Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Science at Southampton Solent University (United Kingdom). James' role primarily involves developing and leading research with particular focus on the role of exercise and physical activity in health and disease.
Follow James on twitter @jamessteeleii
See James’ research gate profile for a list of his publications to date - https://www.researchgate.net/home
George Diggs is an evolutionary biologist and Co-Director of the Public Health Program at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. His research and teaching interests include evolution as it relates to human health, biogeography, plant defense, and the plants of Texas. He has co-authored four books including The Hunter-Gatherer Within: Health and the Natural Human Diet (2013), has written more than 30 scientific articles, has given a TEDx talk, and in his research has traveled to all seven continents.
Dr. John Sorrentino started his practice in 1991 with a commitment to patient care through education. He believes that with proper care everyone can maintain their teeth for a lifetime. Dr. Sorrentino grew up in the Hudson Valley. He received his Bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree from the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. In 2003 he was awarded a Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry (FAGD.).
He is a member and past president of the Dutchess County Dental Society. He is also a member of the New York State Society of Forensic Dentistry and was actively involved in the identification of victims of the World Trade Center disaster and Flight 587. He may be contacted at dentalque@aol.com www.sorrentinodental.com
Ian Spreadbury, Ph.D., is a Canadian neuroscientist, who occasionally pondered the nature of obesity and western disease whilst working at the Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is now studying for an MD in Montreal, where his interests lie in the use of lifestyle interventions as adjuncts in the treatment of non-communicable diseases.
Hamilton M. Stapell is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz. He also sits on the Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Board and is the creator of one of the first college-level courses on ancestral health: EVO201 Evolution and Human Health.
Michael J. O’Brien's main areas of research focus on the integration of evolutionary theory into the social sciences, in particular archaeology and anthropology. Dr. O'Brien is well-known for his work in evolutionary archaeology and biology and has authored or edited 26 books and more than 150 articles, which have appeared in journals such as: Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Human Evolution and Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Charles Nunn is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University, and Director of the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM). Charlie uses evolutionary approaches to understand and improve human and animal health. He and his research group investigate the ecology and evolution of infectious disease, drivers of variation in sleep, and the links between ecology, evolution and global health. He is the author of Infectious Diseases of Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution and The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology.
David R. Samson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He studies health and cognition in both human and non-human primates. The author of Our Tribal Future, David is also leading an effort to validate a survey instrument for measuring mental immunity, the ability to spot and ward off misinformation.
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/david-samson/
Brent C. Pottenger, MD, MHA is a physician at Johns Hopkins. At the University of California, Davis, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology and Financial Management for Healthcare, with a minor in Contemporary Leadership. He completed a Master of Health Administration graduate degree at University of Southern California. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and received The Samuel Novey Prize in Psychological Medicine. Then, he worked as a Healthcare Systems Leadership Fellow in the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins.
Eirik Garnas is the creator and owner of Darwinian-Medicine.com; a website dedicated to evolutionary nutrition and medicine. He’s a nutritionist (B.Sc. in Public Nutrition, M.Sc. in Clinical Nutrition), science writer, health coach, and personal trainer schooled at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Throughout the years Eirik has been involved in the health and medical industry, he has worked with a variety of clients and written for many health and fitness magazines and websites.
Dr. Andrew Gallup is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, where he is the director of the Adaptive Behavior & Cognition (ABC) Lab. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and was recently named a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society. His research has been featured in numerous media outlets, and he currently serves as an Associate Editor for Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology, Frontiers in Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience, and PLOS ONE.
Dan's life's work centers on how to help people live healthfully. He is the CEO of humanOS.me which leverages a novel behavior model to promote health fluency, skill development, and lifestyle insights to help people master their health practice. He does research with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford, and the Departments of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands where he investigates how lifestyle factors, like sleep, influence decision making, cognitive performance, and metabolism. Dan also works with Naval Special Warfare to help the most elite fighters in the world maintain alertness and capable mental performance under challenging circumstances. He currently serves as Board Member for StandUpKids.org, as a Council Director for the True Health Initiative, and Advisor to several health-oriented companies (Ample Meals, Fitstar, Splendid Spoon, Validic), an Editor for the Journal of Evolution and Health, and formerly, as Board Chairman for the Investigator Initiated Sponsored Research Association. @humanOS_me
Anthony J. Basile is a second-year graduate student in the Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. program at Arizona State University, where he currently studies evolutionary medicine. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics, Food, and Nutrition from City University of New York, Lehman College and a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from Columbia University Medical Center. He also holds a Nutrition and Dietetic Technician, Registered (NDTR) accreditation from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Anthony firmly believes that an evolutionary perspective can greatly benefit the field of nutrition and dietetics.
Amy M. Boddy is a human biologist and evolutionary theorist in the Department of Anthropology and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work uses applications from evolution and ecology to understand human health and disease. She uses a combination of genomics, computational biology and evolutionary theory to understand life history trade-offs between survival and reproduction across different levels of biological organization. Current research topics include evolution and cancer, comparative oncology, intragenomic conflict, cellular life history trade-offs, and early life adversity and cancer. In addition to her cancer research, she studies maternal/fetal conflict theory and the consequences of fetal microchimeric cells in maternal health and disease.
With degrees in biology and philosophy from the University of Alabama, Brett worked for a decade as an aquatic biologist with the Geological Survey of Alabama. While working long but enjoyable hours in the field, he maintained an interest in personal health and kept abreast of major developments in the nascent field of Darwinian medicine, longing for a career in this exciting new discipline.
In 2012, he reversed the beginnings of metabolic syndrome with the help of evolutionarily-informed diet and lifestyle modifications, and Darwinism leaped off the page and into his bloodstream.
Brett is now a doctoral student at the State University of New York-Binghamton and studies under the well-known evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, where he hopes to continue work in collaboration with the pioneering evolutionary theorist and experimentalist of aging Michael Rose, linking evolutionary mismatch to the aging process itself.
Felipe A. Veloso has an engineering background -- and biotechnology in particular -- but his passion and research interests quickly developed towards fundamental biology. He is particularly interested in how scientifically tenable and logically consistent teleological or "end-directed" dynamics can emerge at different levels of scale and complexity in living systems, and in living systems only. In 2018, he left academia and continues doing research in theoretical biology while working as a freelance inventor for a Chilean start-up biotech company.
Ph.D. in Zoology, Columbia University, 1963. My interests and work have ranged widely, in order, as follows: ichthyology, herpetology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, systems science, semiotics, natural philosophy, with publications in all but the first. I taught various biology courses at the City University of New York from 1965 until 1990, and have been associated with Binghamton University’s Biological Science department since 1992.
Dr. Kurt Johnson brings an unusual pedigree to this discussion. With a PhD in evolution and ecology, hundreds of refereed scientific articles and three well known popular books in science (Nabokov’s Blues, Fine Lines, and Our Moment of Choice) he is also a professor of comparative religion at New York’s Interfaith Seminary, a former monastic, and co-author of the influential book on world religions, The Coming Interspiritual Age. He is a prominent figure on international committees, particularly at the United Nations and, at Unity Earth, host of the VoiceAmerica series for thought leaders, The Convergence. His viewpoints are, consequently, varied and eclectic.
Christopher Lynn is a biocultural medical anthropologist who studies cultural impacts on health and human cognitive evolution. He received his Ph.D. from the University at Albany (SUNY) and is currently an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama. He co-edited Evolution Education in the American South: Culture, Politics, and Resources in and around Alabama and is working on a book about dissociation and consciousness. He is currently researching tattooing and immune response among Pacific Islanders, developing an anthropology outreach program for elementary students, and co-hosting the “Sausage of Science” podcast. Follow him on Twitter @Chris_Ly and @Inking_Immunity.
Lenny Moss holds doctoral degrees in Comparative Biochemistry (Berkeley) and Philosophy (Northwestern), is the author of What Genes Can’t Do (MIT) and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter (UK). Recently, he has been working to renew the (mostly German) tradition of philosophical anthropology based upon current scientific research and to bring it into dialogue with both theoretical and philosophical biology and critical social theory.
With philosophy and developmental psychology degrees from Columbia University, Alice Andrews teaches psychology and evolutionary studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is a founding member/council member of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society as well as the founder and former editor-in-chief of The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture. She serves on the Executive Board of SUNY New Paltz’s Evolutionary Studies program, as well as on the Editorial Boards of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and EvoS: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium. Alice is also the founder and former editor of Entelechy: Mind & Culture and her novel Trine Erotic (evolutionary fiction) was republished for its 10th-year anniversary in 2012 (Codhill Press).
In addition to her academic pursuits, Alice’s latest project is Sacred Naturalism. She also has a passion for the rights of nature and served on the Environmental Conservation Commission in the Village of New Paltz for 4 years. She is the founder of the group Mothers & Others United to Shut Down Indian Point as well as the founder of Beyond Pesticides in Ulster County. She currently serves on the Village of New Paltz Board of Ethics and was recently endorsed by the Humanist Society as a Humanist Chaplain.
Singing is another passion; Alice is the founder of The Hudson Valley Vocal Improv Collectiveand The Biophony Project, and was the improvisational singer in Clear Light Ensemble for a time. She’s done backup vocals on various albums, including Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Consciousness.
Eva Jablonka (right) is an evolutionary biologist working in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv, and a member of the Sagol School of Neuroscience. Her main interest is the understanding of evolution, especially evolution that is driven by non-genetic hereditary variations and the evolution of nervous systems and consciousness.
Simona Ginsburg (left) is a neurobiologist who retired from the Open University of Israel, where she headed the MA Program in Biological Thought (in philosophy of biology). Her past research interests have been artificial membranes, neurobiology of synapses and the stochastics of ion channels. More recent work focuses on the evolution of early nervous systems and the evolutionary transitions to consciousness in the animal world.
Oren Harman is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He has written widely for popular and professional audiences on genetics, evolution, history and philosophy of science, altruism, biography, and science and mythology. His books include The Man Who Invented the Chromosome, Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World, and The Price of Altruism which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Oren sings bass with the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir. His website is OrenHarman.com.
Liane Gabora is a Professor of Psychology at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. Her research, which employs both experimental studies with humans and computational models, focuses on creativity, how it arose in the hominid lineage, and in what sense culture evolves. She has almost 200 scholarly publications in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings, has obtained over one million dollars in research grants, given lectures worldwide, and was awarded the Berlyne Award for Outstanding Research by from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association. She is also a published fiction writer and composes piano music.
Philip Furley is with the Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research, German Sport University Cologne, Köln, Germany.
Lynette Shaw is a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor of Complex Systems. One of her lines of work employs computational social science methods to study social constructions of value and money in the context of digital currencies such as Bitcoin. The second part of her research is devoted to theorizing and modeling the emergence of cultural dynamics from individual cognitive processing. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 2016.
Gareth Craze is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. A native of New Zealand, he received his Bachelors in Management & Employment Relations and his Masters in Management from The University of Auckland. Gareth's research interests center on the nexus between evolutionary theory, philosophy of business, executive coaching and cognitive science, with his general focus being the exploration of avenues through which aspects of human biology can be optimized in order to improve leadership and talent development.
Per L. Saxegaard is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Business for Peace Foundation. Follow Business for Peace on twitter @businessworthy
Lori Wiser is an accomplished senior executive whose career spans positions in Public Relations, Account Services, Consumer Insights, and Strategy, working on global brands such as McDonald's, Verizon, and Volkswagen.
Ms. Wiser's behaviorally-driven strategic approach leverages the social sciences including: ethnography, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, symbolism, and behavioral economics to build analytic models. Her work has helped win industry awards, such as a Silver Anvil and a Gold Effie.
Rory Sutherland is Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather UK and co-founder of Ogilvychange, a behavioral science practice. He co-heads a team of psychology graduates looking for “butterfly effects” in consumer behaviour, small contextual changes that have enormous effects on the decisions people make.
Paulo Finuras is an expert in International & Intercultural Management and research fellow at the Department of Social Sciences, in ULHT, Lisbon. His research focuses on Organizational and Interpersonal Trust, Evolutionary Psychology, Bio- Leadership, and Bio-Sociology.
John Antonakis is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Antonakis’ research is currently focused on leadership development, power, charisma (watch a TEDx talk on the topic here), personality, and research methods.
Nigel Nicholson is a senior Professor at London Business School, where he has wide-ranging involvements in research, executive education and business. He writes, teaches, speaks and advises on leadership, family business, biography and legacy, executive development, management in finance, and interpersonal skills.
Stephen Colarelli is professor of psychology at Central Michigan University. His research is concerned with how evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology can influence how we think about, conduct research on, and manage behavior in organizations.
Phanish Puranam is the Roland Berger Professor of Strategy & Organization Design at INSEAD. He obtained his PhD at Penn (Wharton), and was previously professor at London Business School.
Guru Madhavan is a biomedical engineer and senior policy adviser. He conducts research at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is vice president of IEEE-USA of IEEE, the world’s largest professional society for engineering and technology. He is the author of the book Applied Minds: How Engineers Think and can be found on Twitter at @BioengineerGM.
Greg Graffin is the frontman of the punk group Bad Religion, which created albums such as Stranger Than Fiction (1994) and True North (2013). He received his Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell University and has taught life sciences at Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles. Graffin has also written two books: Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God (2011) and Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence (2015). He is on Twitter at @DoctorGraffin.
After a doctorate at the Institut Jean Nicod, a postdoc in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania, and another one at the University of Neuchâtel, I am now a research scientist at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod).
Most of my work so far has focused on the function and workings of reasoning. According to the argumentative theory of reasoning, the function of reasoning is argumentative: to find and evaluate arguments so as to convince others and only be convinced when it is appropriate. Accordingly, reasoning works well as an argumentative device, but quite poorly otherwise. Recently I was kindly invited to give a TEDx talk in Ghent, which gives a brief overview of some of this research. Dan Sperber and I wrote a book that develops and extends the argumentative theory of reasoning, called The Enigma of Reason (US, UK).
Peter DeScioli is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University, the Departments of Psychology and Economics at Brandeis University, and the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His research examines how principles of strategy shape elements of human psychology, including moral judgment, alliances, ownership, and procedures for collective decisions such as voting, consensus, and leadership. He is the Associate Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Behavioral Political Economy at Stony Brook University.
Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Evolution and Technology, and holds an honorary research appointment at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Mystery of Moral Authority (Palgrave, 2016), Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress (co-edited with Damien Broderick; Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), and Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics (Springer, 2017).
Elliott Sober teaches philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is in the philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober’s books include The Nature of Selection(1984), Reconstructing the Past -- Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (1988), Philosophy of Biology (1993),Unto Others -- The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1998, coauthored with David Sloan Wilson), Evidence and Evolution – the Logic Behind the Science (2008), Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? (2011), and Ockham’s Razors – A User’s Manual (2015).
Eric Dietrich is professor of philosophy at Binghamton University and the founding editor and current editor in chief of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of numerous papers and several books focusing on cognitive science, consciousness, artificial intelligence, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.
Dr Oliver Scott Curry is a Senior Researcher, and Director of the Oxford Morals Project, at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford. His research investigates the nature, content and structure of human morality, using a range of techniques from philosophy, experimental and social psychology and comparative anthropology.
Andy Norman is the award-winning author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. His work has appeared in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times, Skeptic, Free Inquiry, and The Humanist. He has appeared on NPR, The Joe Rogan Experience, and the BBC’s Naked Scientist. His research illuminates the workings of the mind’s immune system. He champions the emerging science of mental immunity as the antidote to disinformation, propaganda, hate, and division. He is the founder of the Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative (CIRCE), a global institute dedicated to combatting disinformation. As a principal of Infodemic Solutions, he helps client organizations develop immunity to problematic ideas.
Mel Andrews is a philosopher of mind, biology, and cognitive science and a graduate of Tufts University. Mel hopes to answer one really big question: how did entities with experience, agency, and knowledge, like you and me, come to exist out of fundamentally inanimatematerial, like dirt? Mel is a published scholar, and has presented at national and international conferences. Alongside her friend Maximus Thaler, Mel runs an online course on new topics in evolutionary theory.
Daniel Smith has recently completed a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London (UCL). He conducted fieldwork with the Agta, a Filipino hunter-gather population, exploring the behavioural ecology of forager cooperation.
John O. Campbell is an independent researcher based in Victoria, Canada. He has presented at the Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt) conference. John's previous publications include Universal Darwinism: The Path of Knowledge. Learn more at www.universaldarwinism.com
Geoff Mulgan is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne. He is author of the new book Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World.
Melvin Konner teaches anthropology and behavioral biology at Emory University. He received an MD and Ph.D. from Harvard. Konner has authored eleven books, including The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, Why the Reckless Survive, and Other Secrets of Human Nature. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has written for many publications including Nature, Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek.
Robert Boyd is an evolutionary anthropologist whose research is focused on the evolutionary psychology of the mechanisms that give rise to, and shape human culture, and how these mechanisms interact with population dynamic processes to shape human cultural variation. Prior to his current position as Professor of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, Boyd taught at Duke University, Emory University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is considered a forerunner in the field of cultural evolution and uses a combination of mathematical modelling, laboratory experiments, and ethnographic fieldwork in his research.
Paul A. Liberti, Ph.D. is President, CSO and CEO at BioMagnetic Solutions, LLC. Liberti has long been regarded as an innovator and inventor whose work has had significant impact in science and medicine both academically and entrepreneurially. After 16 years of his academic career as Professor at Philadelphia’s Jefferson Medical College, Liberti founded the first biotech company to emerge from a Philadelphia medical university, starting a trend that many followed.
Melanie MacEacheron conducts post-doctoral research via the GEL Laboratory, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, and teaches at the University of Western Ontario. She is a social evolutionary psychologist and a non-practicing Canadian lawyer. Using various methods, she primarily studies women's psychology as potential or actual mothers and sex differences in mating and romantic relationships. She has also conducted comparative legal analysis to add context to psychological publications. (Photo credit: Brandon Jablonski)
Michelle A. Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University.
Amanda Glaze specializes in science teacher education, evolution education research and outreach, and professional development, alternating her time between the classroom and the field as an Assistant Professor of Middle Grades & Secondary Science Education at Georgia Southern University. Her research centers on the intersections of science and society, specifically the acceptance and rejection of evolution in the Southeastern United States and the impact of the conflict between religion and evolution on science literacy.
Melvin Philip is a graduate student in the Biological Sciences Department at Binghamton University. He is also involved with the Evolutionary Studies Program on the campus. His research focuses on applying the core design principles for the efficacy of group to businesses.
Wim Hordijk is an independent and interdisciplinary scientist interested in the origin and evolution of life. After spending several formative years as a graduate student at the Santa Fe Institute, and earning a PhD in computer science from the University of New Mexico, USA, Wim has worked on many research and computing projects at different universities and research institutes all over the world. A wandering scientist by choice, he has collaborated with biologists, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, chemists, and also an archaeologist. He currently holds a senior fellowship at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria.Wim is also an enthusiastic popular science writer, with contributions to (among others) The Scientist, Plus magazine, and TVOL. You can follow his research and writings on Twitter (@WanderingWim) or on his personal website at www.WorldWideWanderings.net
Gordon M. Burghardt received his Ph.D. in Biopsychology from the University of Chicago and is Alumni Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. His research focus has been on comparative studies of behavioral development in animals with special attention to reptiles, bears, and the evolution of play. as well as historical and theoretical issues in ethology and psychology. He has served as editor or editorial board member of numerous journals and is past president of the Animal Behavior Society and the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology (APA Div. 6). He has edited or co-edited 6 books and authored The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits (MIT Press, 2005).
Marcel J. Harmon, a licensed professional engineer and anthropologist, received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico. He currently co-leads the Research & Development team at BranchPattern, a building consultancy dedicated to improving life through better built environments. The primary mission of the team is to provide a research/evidence-based approach for aligning design intent with occupant and organizational needs. Over the years Marcel’s academic and professional focus have included applications of evolutionary theory to understanding past and contemporary societies and the reciprocal relationships between people and their built environments. In his current role, Marcel leads research projects designed to provide insights relative to specific client questions. He engages building occupants, gathering their stories and personal narratives, to ensure that projects better account for occupant’s wants and needs. He also quantifies the built environment’s impact on occupant productivity/performance and health, as well as the occupant’s impact on building performance. Marcel uses this understanding to inform on the process from early programming through post occupancy evaluations, and encourage longer term, prosocial decision making during the design/construction process.
Daniel Dor, a linguist, media researcher and political activist, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University (1996). He is currently head of the Dan Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University. Dor is the author of The Instruction of Imagination: Language as a Social Communication Technology (OUP, 2015) – a new theory of language and its evolution as a socially-constructed communication technology, designed by cultural evolution for the specific function of the instruction of imagination. The evolutionary model presented in the book has been developed in collaboration with Evolutionary Biologist Eva Jablonka. Dor has also written extensively on the role of the mass media in the construction of political hegemony. His (2004) Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outburst of the Second Palestinian Uprising (Indiana University Press) was elected by ChoiceMagazine as Book of the Year in Communication. In 2011, together with Lia Nirgad, Dor founded the Social Guard, an NGO that maintains a constant civic presence in the Israeli Parliamenet (the Knesset).
Maximus is a PhD candidate at Binghamton University studying cultural evolution (Wilson Lab). His work focuses on the organismality of intentional communities, in collaboration with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. Maximus is an activist - founder of The Gleaners' Kitchen and the Genome Collective. He's written a cookbook and runs the EvoS Seminar Series Youtube channel.
Lyudmila N. Trut is head of the research group at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Novosibirsk. She received her doctoral degree in 1980. Her current research interests are the patterns of evolutionary transformations at the early steps of animal domestication. Her research group is developing the problem of domestication as an evolutionary event with the use of experimental models, including the silver fox, the American mink, the river otter and the wild gray rat.