Oct 26, 2022

What Happened to Selfish Genes?

Dawkins himself calls Agren's book "the most thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered...he gets it right."

Oct 25, 2022

Hylo: Prosocial Coordination for a Thriving Planet

Technologies are products of the culture in which they emerge, and they guide the emergence of new cultures.

Oct 25, 2022

Evolution of Responses to Homelessness to Reach Functional Zero

Rosanne Haggerty has been working with others to end homelessness since 1990.

Oct 23, 2022

Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones

Systems scientist, cultural historian, and futurist Riane Eisler will address the urgent question of why despite some forward movement, there have been so many regressions to authoritarianism, violence, and domination worldwide.

Oct 20, 2022

Moving Beyond Naïve Theories of Environmental Property Rights

By understanding diversity, we are better equipped to engage with it without dismissing it and to learn from the advantages of different approaches in time and place. Header Image credit to Eco Life.

Oct 14, 2022

Envisioning Economies and Cultures Inspired by Living Systems

Imagine an economy that is regenerative and adaptive, one that evolves along with the social organism it supports.

Oct 12, 2022

Identifying the Principles of an Ecological Civilization

Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require transformation at a foundational level.

Oct 3, 2022

Living Design: A Novel Interdisciplinary, Interbeing Approach to Regenerating Communities, Organizations, and Ecosystems

An online lecture and in-depth discussion with Tamsin Woolley-Barker. Friday, October 7 at 6pm EST

Sep 19, 2022

Accounting for Values: An Evolutionary Perspective on Resources

How can organizations and people account for the things they truly value?

Jan 3, 2018

Does Natural Selection Explain Why You Exist?

Over the long history of life on earth, the most consequential events have been those in which organisms came to embody new levels or modalities of existence.

Jan 2, 2018

What Does it Mean to be Multicellular?

By studying the transition to multicellularity in a controlled laboratory setting, scientists can gain detailed insight into how these transitions might have occurred in the past.

Dec 29, 2017

One Man’s Selfishness is Another Man’s Altruism

Dec 25, 2017

How to Evolve a Religion

Religious naturalists understand that science and religion aren’t opposed ideologies, rather, both are valuable ways of thinking that allow us to navigate an immeasurably complicated world.

Dec 22, 2017

The Chain That Links Science to Story

Evolutionary theory offers a remarkably rich and beautiful story about how we came to be, but as of yet this story has not been told compellingly enough to reach beyond the halls of academia.

Sep 26, 2017

Unspeakable, Forbidden, Taboo: Teaching Evolution in the South with Dr. Amanda Glaze

Join Dr. Amanda Glaze in this insightful and engaging webinar as she discusses her research on teaching and learning evolution in the South and hear the insightful stories she has collected along the way.

Jun 30, 2017

[WEBINAR] Learning from Evolution About Childhood & Education: A Conversation With Peter Gray

Join Child Development expert Dr. Peter Gray, Research Professor at Boston College and a regular contributor to "Psychology Today", as he discusses evolutionary perspectives on childhood development and education.

Jun 9, 2017

Marketing Evolution Webinar: It's the List, Stupid!

Robert Kadar gives an overview of his tried-and-tested methods for building audiences. He will also explain what "It's the List, Stupid!" means and why it's key to building successful organizations.

May 16, 2017

Holding Hands is More Important Than You Think

It turns out that holding hands with a friend or loved one isn’t just comforting, it actually makes the pain from the shock less painful

Apr 27, 2017

This View of History Webinar: A Conversation With Peter Turchin

Peter Turchin discusses his new book "Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth". Ultrasociety chronicles 10,000 years of human history from an evolutionary perspective, shows how warfare paradoxically caused us to become the greatest cooperators on earth, and begins to point the way toward a future without war.