HealthSports The Physical Activity Mismatch: Can Evolutionary Perspectives Inform Exercise Recommendations? It’s highly likely that some degree of mismatch exists between our modern environment and the…James SteeleMay 3, 2020
Biology A Blurred Future: How Our Eyes Are Changing To Meet Modern Visual Demands Certain genetic makeups may predispose an individual to become nearsighted in a specific environment but…Steve TurpinJune 21, 2019
Biology Is Shame a Bug or a Feature? An Applied Evolutionary Approach Shame seems to have two separate components. One, the corrective feedback for us by which…Nando PelusiJune 13, 2019
BiologyHealth Public Health and Evolutionary Mismatch: The Tragedy of Unnecessary Suffering and Death The current anti-vaccination movement is a result, in part, of the innate cognitive biases inherent…George DiggsMay 22, 2019
BiologyEducation Mismatch Between Our Biologically Evolved Educative Instincts and Culturally Evolved Schools The basic structure of standard schooling requires that children’s natural self-educative instincts be suppressed.Peter GrayMay 2, 2019
Biology Humans: Smart Enough to Create Processed Foods, Daft Enough to Eat Them I spend a lot of time thinking about food and health and have a suspicion…Ian SpreadburyApril 30, 2019
Biology Do We Sleep Better Than Our Ancestors? How Natural Selection and Modern Life Have Shaped Human Sleep Humans sleep substantially less than expected but pack a larger percentage of REM sleep than…Charles Nunn, David SamsonApril 11, 2019
BiologyHealthTechnology The Potential Evolutionary Mismatches of Germicidal Ambient Lighting Introducing germicidal blue light essentially creates a new environment that most bacteria appear to be…Marcel J. HarmonApril 4, 2019
BiologyHealth Is Cancer a Disease of Civilization? Our cancer suppression mechanisms evolved for a world that is not the world we live…Athena AktipisApril 2, 2019
Health (Mis-) Communication in Medicine: A Preventive Way for Doctors to Preserve Effective Communication in Technologically-Evolved Healthcare Environments Cultural evolution created technologically-advanced contexts that make it difficult for doctors to communicate with patients…Brent C. PottengerMarch 20, 2019
