This View of Life
Magazine

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.

Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.

A call for uniting science and the humanities through evolutionary theory to create a single, integrated culture.

To advance both science and society, we must reaffirm sex as a biological binary while expanding gender as an evolutionary spectrum of bodies and behaviors.

A new theory of technological evolution implies there is an inevitability to the Anthropocene, and suggests a rethink of why and how the industrial revolution happened.

What if your neighborhood could shape your stress levels, your trust in others, and even your immune system?

Join the conversation about how evolutionary thinking can guide us in addressing today’s most pressing issues.

Human communication evolved face-to-face, but digital anonymity disrupts this natural social bond.