This View of Life
Magazine

The complexity–evolution paradigm explains systems well but needs a stronger ethical and institutional framework to guide effective action.

Social science paradigms don’t just explain society — they shape it, acting as selection environments for institutions and behavior

Primatology must adopt queer and decolonial perspectives to fully understand how culture and power shape science, gender, and sexuality.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy reflects on a career that exposed how gendered assumptions distorted evolutionary science and shows how taking mothers, infants, and female strategies seriously reshapes our understanding of human nature.

Biological sex and genital anatomy are inherently variable, shaped by complex development, social context, and evolution rather than strict binaries.

Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection.

Our 21st-century crises are rooted in outdated, individualistic paradigms. A new complexity and evolution-based paradigm can better guide science, policy, and collective action.

Anthropological methods show that skeletal sex is an estimate, not a certainty, revealing the limits of binary claims about human identity.

Attacks on gender biology reflect a wider assault on science, universities, and democratic inquiry.

Dismantling the sex binary requires confronting the racist and heterosexist foundations of sexual selection theory.

Tom Stoppard’s extraordinary gift for bringing the hardest problems in philosophy and science to life reminds us why storytellers remain essential to public understanding.

The ruff bird’s three male morphs and one female morph offer a vivid example of why biology resists strict sex binaries.