This View of Life
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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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UCSB Evolutionary Psychologists Study the Purpose of Punishment and Reputation

For two decades, evolutionary scientists have been locked in a debate over the evolved functions of three distinctive human behaviors.

Mind
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Prehistoric Pigment

On an ancient ocean floor in the United Kingdom, paleontologists have found exceptionally well-preserved, 160-million-year-old ink sacs.

Paleontology
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Does History Cycle?

The reason you have ups and downs in dynamical systems is that there are internal feedback loops.

Culture
Politics
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Patients and Evolutionary History

What evolutionary insights are there for clinical medicine?

Health
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Punish the Shirkers! Especially the Low-status Ones

Do high-status freeloaders get a free pass?

Mind
Politics
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Conflict and ‘Boom-Bust’ Explain Humans’ Rapid Evolution

What explains the extraordinarily fast rate of evolution in the human lineage over the past two million years?

Culture
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Evolution Is as Complicated as 1-2-3

The step-by-step process in which organisms evolve new functions.

Biology
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Touring The Brain

Our brains are rather like a city that has existed since ancient times

Biology
Mind
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Awaiting a New Darwin

"The mind-body problem “is not just a local problem” but “invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and its history.”

Mind
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In Defense of Evolutionary Psychology

Defending evolutionary psychology.

Mind
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Dung beetles guided by Milky Way

Beatles that navigate by using the stars.

Biology
All
Born to Lead?

New study identifies a specific DNA sequence associated with the tendency for individuals to occupy a leadership position.

Politics
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