This View of Life
Magazine

This View of Life is an interdisciplinary magazine and academic journal dedicated to exploring the application of evolutionary science across all aspects of human life.

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Cooperation and Collective Action in Deep Time and the Archaeological Record

Archaeology shows cooperation, not just coercion, shaped early large-scale societies.

Anthropology
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Revitalizing Economics’ Paradigm: Of Minds and Markets, by Patrick Schotanus

Why economics must move beyond mechanistic models and reckon with consciousness.

Commentaries
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A New Economic Paradigm Needs New Ways of Thinking and New Ways of Doing, by Graham Boyd and Jack Reardon

Why a regenerative economy needs new theories of value, risk, and corporate agency

Commentaries
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Which Darwin for Darwinism? Charles Darwin, Neo-Darwinism and the Question of Cooperation, by Denis Noble

What did Darwin really mean — and how did neo-Darwinism narrow his legacy?

Commentaries
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: How Science Keeps Animal Sexuality in the Closet

Scientific bias has obscured how common same-sex behavior is across the animal world.

Gender
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Cultural Evolution and a New Economy for the 21st Century, by Henrietta L. Moore

Why a new economy needs cultural evolution, local action and a break from old orthodoxies

Commentaries
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Rethinking Collective Performance: A New Economic Paradigm, by Jan Pfister

Today’s overlapping crises point to one deeper problem: the breakdown of collective performance

Commentaries
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Developing Kinship: How Culture and Cooperative Caregiving Shaped the Evolution of Sexual & Gender Diversity

Research across cultures suggests that family care and support may help explain why same-sex sexuality has endured throughout human history.

Gender
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Paradigms as Lived Symbolic Systems: Worldviews, Regeneration, and Eco-Systemic Flourishing, by Wendy Ellyatt

Paradigms are lived symbolic systems shaping identity, culture, institutions and ecology — transforming them is key to long-term human and planetary flourishing.

Commentaries
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Relational Agency and the New Paradigm for Prosocial Organization, by Francis Heylighen

Relational agency shows how cooperation and collective action emerge from mutually reinforcing interactions, no altruism or central control required.

Commentaries
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Why Does Diversity Matter in Science?

Greater diversity and feminist critique has helped uncover overlooked biology and shift evolutionary theory in important ways.

Gender
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The Emotional Roots of Economic Paradigms, by Angus Armstrong

Economic theories endure because they make the world feel coherent, even when inaccurate — understanding this explains why paradigm change is hard.

Commentaries
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