This View of Life
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Four of the six families of scorpionflies that once lived on Earth died out before the Oligocene Epoch 33 million years ago, leaving us with the two families that exist today. Dr. Archibald has discovered the first specimens of one of those missing families, and dubbed it Eorpidae.

Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.

Folk tales' 'DNA' shows that people would sooner have sex with strangers than tell their fables.

<em>Alalcomenaeus</em> provides an important evolutionary step between scorpions and spiders and other arthropods like millipedes and crustaceans.

A new fossil belonging to an ancient fish is so complete that it is one of the few that still contained its tiny otoliths, or ear bones.

One of the greatest challenges of our time is reconciling the seemingly opposing worldviews of religion and science.

Economics is in the midst of a quiet crisis having undergone a schism forty years ago, and showing no signs of healing.

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face.

Two studies have uncovered two intriguing human adaptive traits.

The emerging new paradigm for improving public policy.In a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, more than two dozen scholars from around the world have written 13 articles with the important and difficult goal of making economics better.