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TheEvolution Institute (EI) has joined five other behavioral science organizations to advance society’s use of behavioral science knowledge and methods.

The issue of recruitment, as opposed to just radicalization, is an undeniably important and neglected area of study.

If prosocial behaviors are vulnerable to more self-serving behaviors in every group where both types of behaviors occur, then how can they evolve by natural selection?

As a highly social species, humans have an evolved tendency to favor the ‘in-group.’ This trait significantly impacts our immunity, or lack of it, to false or harmful information.

Darwin knew humans can’t survive or thrive individually. Indeed the relation between people and groups is akin to that between genes and bodies.

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).

The celebrated literary scholar Brian Boyd takes us on a tour of an amazing museum exhibit and other happenings at the interface of art and evolution.

My Agreement and Disagreement with Jerry Coyne.

While cancer is not exclusively a disease of modern environments, many modern environmental changes influence our disease susceptibility.

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.

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.