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January 14, 2025

The Pragmatics of Shared Purpose: Hidden Dynamics That Make or Break Group Success

The ProSocial Journey of shared purpose is part of a larger framework for building effective groups.

April 30, 2024

What Darwin Understood About Humor

Darwin’s thoughts on humor presaged our modern scientific understanding of its nature and its cultural manifestations

June 20, 2018

The Biological Scars of Separation

The deliberate separation of migrant children from their parents is not only cruel and unnecessary but has the potential for long-term negative effects on their mental and biological health.

July 3, 2024

The Darwinian Causes of Mental Illness

Why hasn’t natural selection eliminated -- or at least severely reduced the frequency of -- well-known risk alleles for major depression and other mental health conditions that compromise organismal fitness?

February 11, 2012

Part 1: Not Just a Just-so Story

“We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.”There are many criticisms of the evolutionary view of human nature, and most of these have been the subject of ongoing debate and commentary. In this series of posts, of which this is the first installment, I will address one of the most pervasive objections, particularly among secular humanists and even some scientists: the notion that we’re telling “just-so stories” about human nature.

January 2, 2013

Why Society Might Actually Need Psychopaths

Does society actually need psychopaths so it can function properly?