Evolution's New Narrative
Life is a decentralized, horizontal network, not merely a centralized, hierarchical tree.
Life is a decentralized, horizontal network, not merely a centralized, hierarchical tree.
A dumb, loud movie that delivers the promised monster beatdowns.
Free Agents author Kevin J. Mitchell makes a neuroscientific case against determinism.
Author Kevin J. Mitchell makes a neuroscientific case against determinism.
A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit
Time for a new Operation Warp Speed?
In The End of Gender, Debra Soh stands up for impartial research—and for LGBTQ rights.
Human beings are designed to remember trauma more than joy, bad times more than good ones. But John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister have good news on the despair front.
Meet the economist who understood NASCAR crashes, the sale of indulgences, and the feeding habits of coal tits.
A new book probes the roots of humans' destructive impulses.
A new book offers an answer to the nature/nurture debate.
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says natural selection "prewires" us for peaceful co-existence.
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says our common humanity outweighs divisive tribalism.
Frank talk about evolution, feminism, politics, and why we don't want to acknowledge social progress.
"What we're really watching is a breakdown in society's capacity to reason with itself," former Evergreen State College evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein tells The Fifth Column.
However, the rise of modern social institutions has greatly reduced violence in contemporary societies.
Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal review of A Crude Look at the Whole
Comparing his scores on seven science policy topics to Cruz, Rubio, and Bush
"Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality" in Nature
How culture, economies, technology, and government evolve
Incremental, bottom-up, trial-and-error innovation yields moral progress, superior technologies, and greater wealth
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
How is this question related to actual federal policy?
Another shocking result from social science!
Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto on the digital revolution and the death of the megastate.
Carefully organized homes found during excavations
Ancient carpenter bees, specifically
Homo habilis to homo erectus could've been a progression, not species that lived at the same time
Happened either to protect children from infanticide or females, scientists say
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