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From the Middle: Sites of Culture, Cooperation, and Trust in Risk Society

Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.

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How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different

Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups of individuals.

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By Eric Johnson In History

Evolutionary Biologists Need to Know about Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

This edited chapter from Lee Alan Dugatkin’s book Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale’s Museum is also the topic of a This View of Life Podcast...

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Health Sociology

Institutionalization of Animal Welfare and the Evolution of Coronavirus(es)

The current pandemic is an obvious manifestation of the price society has to pay for…

Erin M. Evans
August 24, 2020

Education

Education is an Evolutionary Science. Why Don’t We Teach It That Way?

There is an inspiring new direction in which the evolutionary science of education can be…

Dustin Eirdosh, Susan Hanisch
August 20, 2020

Economy Sociology

The Coronavirus Pandemic, Evolutionary Sociology, and Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States

Despite the coronavirus, the per capita growth average should return to normal, just as it…

Michael Hammond
August 17, 2020

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Health

Pandemic: A Global Opportunity for National Renewal or Deterioration

Pandemics spread among human populations because the viruses and bacteria that cause them exploit a…

Scott Atran
April 20, 2020

Business Economy Politics

The Crisis of Capitalism

We must evolve a form of capitalism that minimizes harm and maximizes benefit.

Anthony Biglan
April 16, 2020

Politics

Why Capitalism Fails

Under free-market capitalism, greed becomes good and traditional moral systems become obsolete.

Publius
April 14, 2020

Business Environment Politics

The Fossil Fuel Industry: The Greatest Threat to Human Wellbeing

Fossil fuel companies have an incentive to prevent policies that would keep them from selling…

Anthony Biglan
April 9, 2020

Politics

Why Socialism Fails

Evolutionary theory leads to a conception of socialism—governance for the common good—that works. It also…

Publius
April 7, 2020

Culture PROSOCIAL

To Adapt to Your Current Challenges, Try this Speed Version of Prosocial

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the challenges that the global pandemic has thrust upon you?…

David Sloan Wilson
April 3, 2020

Business Economy Politics

How Free-Market Ideology Resulted in the Great Recession

The evolutionary principles of variation and selection are relevant to finance because the practices of…

Anthony Biglan
April 2, 2020

Politics

Self-Interest, Rightly Understood, is Social

The checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution and the invisible hand of the…

Publius
March 30, 2020

Podcast

Evolutionary Mismatch in the Workplace with Mark van Vugt and Max Beilby

Listen: Spotify - Google - Apple - Stitcher Max Beilby and Mark van Vugt discuss the science of evolutionary mismatch how it…

Mark van Vugt, Max Beilby
March 28, 2020

Business Health

Big Pharma and the Death of Americans

As long as harmful practices result in profits to corporations and income to corporate leaders,…

Anthony Biglan
March 26, 2020

Biology Health

How Coronavirus Bypasses Our Behavioral Immune System (And What We Can Do About It)

The evolved emotion of disgust neutralizes many pathogens by helping us avoid what makes us…

Joshua Tybur
March 23, 2020

Business Health

How and Why the Food Industry Makes Americans Sick

The problem is that capitalism, as it is currently practiced in the United States, has…

Anthony Biglan
March 19, 2020

Politics

The Extremist in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Era of Anarchist Terrorism

Terrorism is used by those who do not have the means to pursue more conventional…

Randall Law
March 17, 2020

Business Politics

The Right to Sell Arms

Unlike the industry leaders Adam Smith wrote about, when leaders of the gun industry pursue…

Anthony Biglan
March 12, 2020

Biology Culture Environment

Evolving a Major Transition in the Internet Age

The theory of major transitions provides an all-encompassing framework to explore both the opportunities and…

Alan Honick
March 7, 2020

Podcast

PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A Conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass

This article accompanies a This View of Life Podcast episode. Listen: Spotify - Google - Apple - Stitcher In 1992, the evolutionary…

Niruban Balachandran, Daniel Glass
March 6, 2020

Psychology

The Taxonomy of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations

PsychTable.org is an open-science taxonomy devoted to uncovering the richness and complexity of our evolved…

Niruban Balachandran, Daniel Glass
March 6, 2020

Business Culture Health

How Cigarette Marketing Killed 20 Million People

The tobacco industry provides a lesson about the harm that can be done in the…

Anthony Biglan
March 5, 2020

Anthropology Politics Religion

Why Religious Extremism is Maladaptive

Religious systems that lose their adaptability become dangerous to the societies in which they exist,…

Richard Sosis
March 3, 2020

Business Culture Economy Politics

The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan

The fact that evolutionary selection pressures so often result in social pathologies might be hard…

David Sloan Wilson, Anthony Biglan
February 27, 2020

Podcast

Evolution Doesn’t Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk

Listen: Spotify - Google - Apple - Stitcher The idea that nature, left to itself, reaches some sort of harmonious balance is…

Eric JohnsonFebruary 26, 2020

Culture Psychology

An Evolutionary Perspective on the Real Problem with Increased Screen Time

As communication in human communities becomes increasingly screen-based, it also becomes increasingly deindividuated. This is…

Glenn Geher
February 24, 2020

Politics

Why Terrorists Are Misunderstood

Although terrorism is often described as a form of communication, terrorists are rather poor communicators…

Max Abrahms
February 19, 2020

Opportunities PROSOCIAL

Evolving a Sustainable Future in the United Kingdom

Prosocial is inherently about equity and co-production starting at the scale of small groups and…

David Sloan Wilson
February 13, 2020

Politics

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of Terrorist Recruiters

The issue of recruitment, as opposed to just radicalization, is an undeniably important and neglected…

John Horgan, Katerina Papatheodorou
February 12, 2020

Politics

In the Eye of the Beholder: Parochial Altruism, Radicalization, and Extremism

Radicalization is an inherently relational concept. One can only be radical in relation to someone…

Zoey Reeve
February 4, 2020

Politics

Extremist Violence Has Its Roots in Morality, Not Ideology

The ideology behind extremist violence looks remarkably like the “moral sentiments” of empathy, indignation, and…

Clark McCauley
January 30, 2020

Podcast

Dugnad as Part of Norway’s Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk

Listen: Spotify - Google - Apple - Stitcher What is Dugnad? It is a uniquely Norwegian word that identifies an important…

Eric JohnsonJanuary 29, 2020

Philosophy Psychology

Is Evolutionary Psychology Impossible?

Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible."

Edward Hagen
January 28, 2020

Politics

Conservative Extremists Are Afraid of Threats That Don’t Exist

Crucially, the pattern of heightened reactivity and credulity toward potential threats characteristic of the conservative…

Colin Holbrook, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook
January 21, 2020

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