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Dealing with Disproportionality in Climate Change Policymaking

How can we leverage what we know to attenuate and adapt to climate change catastrophes?

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Constructing Prosocial Environments: The Parable of the Turtle

Nearly every group on earth can benefit from implementing the Core Design Principles and understanding them for what they are.

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By David Sloan Wilson In Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 4. The Great Reckoning

By the 1960s, everything that evolved by natural selection was interpreted as a variety of self-interest.

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PROSOCIAL

Why is Talking About Power Important?

When we use power unskillfully, we decrease the likelihood of creating groups that work for…

Paul Atkins
March 2, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 3. Naïve Group Selectionism

Pre-Darwinian notions did not come to an abrupt halt with the advent of Darwin's theory.…

David Sloan Wilson
February 24, 2022

Opportunities

Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America

A new project in Latin America draws upon an unexpected source of insight: Darwin’s theory…

David Sloan Wilson
February 21, 2022

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Biology Politics

What Will It Take To Decolonize Ecology?

The field of "western" Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) started centuries ago when European naturalists,…

Adriana Romero-Olivares, Prakash Kashwan
February 17, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 2. The Original Problem

Darwin observed that groups of prosocial individuals will survive and reproduce better than groups of…

David Sloan Wilson
February 15, 2022

PROSOCIAL

Introducing the Prosocial Commons

Prosocial World is excited to introduce a new experimental support and engagement group called the…

David Sloan Wilson
February 12, 2022

Environment Politics

The Solution To Climate Change Is To Talk About Climate Change

Maintaining optimism in the face of what is an overwhelming climate crisis is absolutely necessary,…

Rebecca Huntley
February 10, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 1. Why It Is Needed

What happens when science doesn't work as it should? Such is the case for the…

David Sloan Wilson
February 8, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection

A prologue for the Twelfth Anniversary Edition.

David Sloan Wilson
February 8, 2022

Biology Politics

Towards a New Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans and Nature

It is a sad reality that recognition for many scientists depends on their nationality and…

Shubhobroto Ghosh
February 3, 2022

Environment

Changing Social Norms Could Create a Green Future

What can we do, from an evolutionary psychological perspective, to use our hunger for status…

Mark van Vugt
January 27, 2022

Commentaries

Joe Rogan Has Built His Career on Anti-Science Misinformation. I Should Know Because I Was On the Receiving End

Joe Rogan is one example of a wider problem in our age of misinformation.

Alison A. Elgart
January 21, 2022

Commentaries

A Rebuttal to “The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson”

Wilson’s insights speak for themselves and his dozens of worthy titles allow us to grapple…

The Editors
January 19, 2022

Biology Politics

Decolonizing Science and a World Turned Upside Down

To support a sustainable and inclusive world, the sciences must grapple with their embeddedness in…

Madhusudan Katti, Jess Auerbach
January 17, 2022

Environment

Addressing Gaps Between Knowledge, Action, Justice: The Climate Change Challenge

“You will die of old age. I will die from climate change.” - Greta Thunberg

Richard Falk
January 13, 2022

Biology History

The Six Legacies of Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson, who passed away at the age of 92 on December 26, 2021,…

David Sloan Wilson
January 5, 2022

Environment

A Climate of Change: To Combat Global Warming, We Need to Break the Law

We must become law-breakers to respond to the climate emergency. Human-induced climate warming has already…

A.C. Grayling
December 15, 2021

Environment Politics

Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts

Climate change is the quintessential Tragedy of the Commons problem of our time. But there…

Helen Camakaris
December 9, 2021

Environment

The Anthropocene: A Shock in the Evolutionary History of the Earth System

How can we turn around this trajectory towards a catastrophic future?

Will Steffen
December 2, 2021

Environment

The Nexus Between Evolution and Climate Change: Introduction

Over the past decades, it has become clear that climate change presents an existential risk…

Helen Camakaris, James Dyke
November 17, 2021

Politics Psychology

Will to Fight for the Future Can’t Be Bought

Only by understanding the psychology of sacred values can we predict the willingness to sacrifice…

Scott Atran
October 28, 2021

Anthropology

National Parochialism is Ubiquitous Around the World

In an ever-increasing globalized world, cooperation with foreign citizens becomes vital to deal with important…

Angelo Romano
October 5, 2021

Biology Economy

Stewarding the Cultural Evolution of Complex Systems: The Case of Regenerative Agriculture

A conversation with Prof. Nicholas R. Jordan, founder of Forever Green which is one of…

David Sloan Wilson, Nicholas R. Jordan
October 4, 2021

Culture

The False Tropes of Darwinism and a New Narrative of Prosocial Evolution

The narrative of Darwinism on television programs is portrayed almost exclusively in a negative light.…

Eric Michael Johnson
September 26, 2021

Anthropology Gender

Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Chimpanzees Challenge Our Gendered Biases About Evolution

The big question is, how did we manage to miss these behaviors in chimpanzees for…

Michelle Rodrigues
September 15, 2021

Anthropology Culture

New Funding Opportunities to Address Hot Topics in Cultural Evolution

Researchers of cultural evolution may leverage this understanding to enable them to predict (and potentially intervene) in…

Rachel L. Kendal
September 8, 2021

Biology History

Remembering Richard Lewontin: A Tribute From a Student Who Never Got to Meet Him

We have lost one of the twentieth century’s deepest thinkers whose work will have a…

Madhusudan Katti
July 5, 2021

Business

Agile as a Case Study of Cultural Multilevel Selection: A Conversation with Laurent Alt

Multilevel Selection (MLS) is a theoretical framework that originated for the study of genetic evolution…

Laurent Alt, David Sloan Wilson
May 12, 2021

Biology Evolutionary Psychology

Why Is A Polo Shirt Like A Peacock’s Tail?

Life history theory suggests that displays of luxury items provide signals with social goals.

Daniel J. Kruger
April 20, 2021

Biology History

Ronald Fisher Is Not Being ‘Cancelled’, But His Eugenic Advocacy Should Have Consequences

How should we remember scientists that altered our conception of the natural world but who…

Eric Michael Johnson
April 12, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Past, Present, and Future

Evolution is inherently a contextual science. Species are shaped by aspects of their environments that…

David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes
April 7, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Psychopathology and Behavior Change

https://youtu.be/AOSvkCxSZmM In this final discussion, it was striking how different the perspectives were between evolutionary…

David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes
April 7, 2021

Humanities

Turning Fiction Into Reality: A Conversation with Stuart Libman

Fiction has a way of communicating a moral ideal better than dry intellectual prose.

David Sloan Wilson
March 17, 2021

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