Category:
Biology
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Oct 4, 2021
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 the most ambitious efforts to transition from conventional farming practices to regenerative agriculture
Apr 20, 2021
Why Is A Polo Shirt Like A Peacock’s Tail?
Life history theory suggests that displays of luxury items provide signals with social goals.
Dec 22, 2020
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Symbolic Thought and Communication
Are there universal features of grammar and syntax?
Dec 18, 2020
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Learning
Can variation and selection within a lifetime be thought of evolutionarily?
Dec 15, 2020
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Introduction
This groundbreaking series of conversations seek to integrate Evolutionary Science and Contextual Behavioral Science with a larger audience.
Aug 4, 2020
Bringing Neuroscience and Sociology into Dialogue on Emotions to Better Understand Human Behavior
What this potential marriage suggests is there are great possibilities for research, particularly around social relationships.
Mar 7, 2020
Evolving a Major Transition in the Internet Age
The theory of major transitions provides an all-encompassing framework to explore both the opportunities and challenges facing humanity in the Internet Age.
Oct 3, 2019
Seven Reasons Why Most Major Depression is Probably Not a Brain Disorder
If most MD, as it is currently diagnosed, is not a disorder, should we keep calling it Major Depression?
Sep 10, 2019
Blurring the Line Between “Others” – A Practical Application of Cultural Multilevel Selection Theory
Through a cultural multilevel selection perspective, seeing an individual “other” as human can shift the level of selection from within subgroups at a lower level to between groups at a higher level.
Jul 22, 2019
Master Class: A Conversation with Jonathan Birch About the Equivalence of Theories of Social Evolution
The controversy over group selection that emerged in the 1960’s seemed as if one theory could be rejected in favor of another, but it was really more like monolingual people declaring each other to be confusing and wrong.
May 10, 2019
Group Selection in Every Way Except Using the Words: A Critique of "The Goodness Paradox" by Richard Wrangham
Wrangham's new book on the evolution of cooperation gets many things right. But he errs in thinking that he can develop his thesis without invoking group selection.
Jan 15, 2019
Welcome to the Noösphere
An evolutionary teleological view would be that no matter where you are in the cosmos, that there is, under the right conditions, a direction toward more complex, organized structures (both physical and non-physical).
Nov 28, 2018
Fighting for the Middle Ground: David Sloan Wilson Interviews Holly Dunsworth on the Ethics of Teaching Evolution
In a world that is being ripped apart by polarized views and fake news, scientific discourse might be the last bastion of constructive disagreement based on respect for objective knowledge.
Nov 19, 2018
It Is Unethical To Teach Evolution Without Confronting Racism And Sexism
Evolution educators—even if sticking to E. coli, fruit flies, or sticklebacks—must confront the ways that evolutionary science has promoted or inspired so many racist, sexist, and otherwise harmful beliefs.
Oct 9, 2018
Saving Social Constructivism
Social constructivism is on trial for being an academic fraud. Can it be rescued and does it have valid points to make about science after all?
Sep 27, 2018
The Obstetrical Dilemma, Dismantled: Human Childbirth is Not a Dilemma
Rather than being evicted from the womb before their heads are too big, a new hypothesis argues that human babies are born when their growth rates become too costly for their mothers’ metabolism to support.
Sep 10, 2018
The Evolution of Emergent Computation
Many systems in nature consist of a large number of relatively simple units that interact only locally, and without a central control, yet the system as a whole can produce intricate globally coordinated behaviors.
Jul 26, 2018
Mismatch: An Interview with Mark van Vugt
Human psychology evolved over millions of years in relatively stable environments in small-scale communities. But, in the modern world, evolutionary mismatch can occur where a trait adapted for one environment is out of place where we live today.
Jul 9, 2018
Sex Roles Are Flexible in Chimpanzees and Bonobos. What Does That Say About Human Evolution?
A new study shows that chimpanzees and bonobos are far more similar in their gender roles than previously thought. In order to understand the range of complexity in our evolutionary cousins’ social lives, perhaps we first need to recognize the range of complexity that exists in our own.
Jun 12, 2018
Can Monkeys Be Gay? What Homosexual Behavior in Primates Can Tell Us About the Evolution of Human Sexuality
Recent observations of homosexual behavior in male spider monkeys adds to our knowledge of these behaviors and may help us answer questions about the evolutionary functions homosexual behaviors may play.
