This View of Life
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Our cancer suppression mechanisms evolved for a world that is not the world we live in today.

Decolonization not only requires greater inclusion of marginalized knowers, but it also requires that systems are put in place that enable and fund Indigenous-led and conceptualized research and policy-making processes.

Every person is in a position to start consciously evolving their meaning systems for the groups in their own lives.

The big question is, how did we manage to miss these behaviors in chimpanzees for so long?

In the scarce environment of our ancestral past, having a preference for highly sweet and fatty foods had real survival and reproductive advantages.

Altruistic behavior seems abundant in nature, but how did it evolve? George Price had the answer nearly fifty years ago.

Each eye is beautiful and elegant in its own right, and each eye we look at offers us a new way to appreciate the wonders of evolution.

It is possible for people to be highly knowledgeable and reject evolution for reasons beyond evidence. When that happens, it is important to listen in order to understand why so we can bridge those gaps.

The hypotheses that get tested do not emerge from a vacuum. All hypotheses emerge from assumptions, whether we recognize them or not.

Besides racial prejudice, what else is behind xenophobia? Among the evolved human instincts, we can find at least two for the anti-immigration sentiment: territoriality and the endowment effect.

Gary Shepherd is much more than a self-taught scholar. He has actually been saved by science, in the same way that many people are saved by religion.