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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 also misused the tools of science to target marginalized populations?

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By David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes In 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 impact survival and reproduction, thanks to heritable variation. Basic scientific research, therefore, begins in the...

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By David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes In Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Psychopathology and Behavior Change

In this final discussion, it was striking how different the perspectives were between evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science, even though both were tasked with the same general topic. Both...

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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

History Humanities

Greek Democracy as a Major Evolutionary Transition: A Conversation with Josiah Ober

The 1970s marked a conceptual breakthrough in evolutionary biology that was beyond Darwin’s imagination. Individual…

Josiah Ober, David Sloan Wilson
March 11, 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
March 9, 2021

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Introducing Prosocial World to the World

Darwin’s 212th birthday is a good time to introduce Prosocial World (PW), a new organization…

David Sloan Wilson
February 12, 2021

Biology Psychology

Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain

Your brain has been altered, neurologically re-wired as you acquired a particular skill. This renovation…

Joseph Henrich
February 9, 2021

Business Psychology

Does Competition Increase Trust?

Research shows that when a person moves into a more competitive industry their trust tends…

Joseph Henrich
February 2, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Small Groups

Prosociality requires not just figuring out what’s prosocial within the group, but also how a…

David Sloan Wilson
January 29, 2021

Psychology Sociology

Why Immigration Drives Innovation

U.S. immigration is but one example of how the interactions of many diverse minds—our collective…

Joseph Henrich
January 26, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Behavioral and Physical Health

Many social and personal problems are adaptive in the evolutionary sense of the word, but…

David Sloan Wilson
January 22, 2021

Economy

My Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Don’t Be an Economist

Climate change, collapsing ecosystems, savage wealth inequality, tech monopolies, and the growing precarity of livelihoods…

David Bollier
January 19, 2021

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Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Organizational Development

Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize by creating a database of common-pool resource groups from…

David Sloan Wilson
January 15, 2021

Podcast

Atlas Hugged and Our Moment of Choice, with Kurt Johnson

Kurt Johnson wears many hats--a distinguished evolutionary biologist, a leader of the Interspiritual Movement, an authority on the…

David Sloan Wilson
January 14, 2021

Podcast

Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd

We discuss Atlas Hugged and Brian's biography-in-progress of the legendary philosopher of science, Karl Popper,…

David Sloan Wilson
January 14, 2021

Podcast

Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten

David Korten is the renowned futurist, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning among many other…

David Sloan Wilson
January 14, 2021

Economy

Economics Will Never Move If We Try To Change It Incrementally

Economics provides an outstanding example of the “you can’t get there from here” principle in…

Blair Fix
January 12, 2021

Biology Politics

Learning from Evolution about Free Speech

The world is in turmoil over the incendiary language of a US president, the invasion…

David Sloan Wilson
January 11, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Emotions and Empathy

How does felt emotion overlap with expressed emotion and its social functions? What is the…

Steven C. Hayes
January 8, 2021

Economy

Advice for Evolutionary-Minded Economics Students

Despite exciting synergies between evolution and economics, the disciplines interact less than they should. How…

Donald Cox
January 5, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Development and Adolescence

Are adolescent behaviors innately pathological or are they a result of the environment? Prominent scholars…

David Sloan Wilson
January 1, 2021

Economy

A Copernican Revolution in Economics

Does evolution offer the tools for economics to take the next great leap?

Dennis Snower
December 30, 2020

Economy

Placing Economics into the Cooperative Frame

The evolutionary approach tells us we can increase the chances of our group's survival through…

Andreas Duus Pape
December 28, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Symbolic Thought and Communication

Are there universal features of grammar and syntax?

Steven C. Hayes
December 22, 2020

Economy

Bringing Evolutionary Thinking Into Economics and Finance

For aspiring scholars, there is a wealth of options for learning about evolutionary thinking as…

David Hirshleifer
December 21, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Learning

Can variation and selection within a lifetime be thought of evolutionarily?

Steven C. Hayes
December 18, 2020

Economy

Evolution is No Self-Seller in Economics. What Do We Do About That?

Due to the transdisciplinary nature of research on evolution, openness to engage in an interdisciplinary…

Ulrich Witt
December 17, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Introduction

This groundbreaking series of conversations seek to integrate Evolutionary Science and Contextual Behavioral Science with…

David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes
December 15, 2020

Economy

Do zee Chimpanzees Have zee Credit Cards?

What can an aspiring economist do to acquire an education in Evonomics on their own?

Terence Burnham
December 14, 2020

Economy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Truths of Being an Economist

An evolutionary perspective can bring back what’s missing from economic theory.

John Gowdy
December 10, 2020

Sociology

The Epidemic and the Epistemic: An Exercise in Evolutionary Sociology

The present pandemic is a stark reminder that humans are, first and foremost, biological beings…

Douglas A. Marshall
December 9, 2020

Economy

A War Between the Economy and Earth

How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them…

Lisi Krall
December 7, 2020

Economy

The Case for Adding Darwin to Behavioral Economics

As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary…

Robert Frank
December 3, 2020

Economy

The Invisible Hand is a Wishful Invention

A better metaphor for economics is that of a giant organism continually reacting to and…

Alan Kirman
November 30, 2020

Economy

Some Pessimistic Advice to an Aspiring Economist

The core assumption in modern economics is highly flawed but it can be hard to…

Geoffrey Hodgson
November 26, 2020

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