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Radicalization is an inherently relational concept. One can only be radical in relation to someone who is not. Similarly, one cannot be extreme without an accepted center norm. But the center is not a fixed state. It shifts and changes across time, place, circumstance, and culture.

The common denominator here is not consciousness, but the spontaneous emergence of systems that are agents, systems with teleological properties: the “end-directed” properties that unequivocally characterize life.

Scottish team of scientists are hoping their will enable them to create life out of inorganic molecules.

Darwin made it clear that the term "struggle for existence" was not to be taken literally but should rather be understood in a large and metaphorical sense.

In spite of what our history books might have taught us, it was the euthycarcinoids that first stepped foot on the “New World” – while giant slug-like mollusks slimed ashore and primitive crustaceans fed along the land/water's edge.In spite of what our history books might have taught us, it was the euthycarcinoids that first stepped foot on the “New World” – while giant slug-like mollusks slimed ashore and primitive crustaceans fed along the land/water's edge.

Challenging the prevailing wisdom that top-down or market-based approaches are necessary for managing environmental resources.

Capitalism, neoliberalism, and state communism have intensified inequalities and increased global impoverishment. How can we do better?

Gay men don’t have sex that results in children causing their genes not to be passed on: so how come they didn’t “go extinct?”

Erle Ellis from the University of Maryland proposes a global approach to investigating the true origins of the Anthropocene.

Are there ‘bad’ kinds of moralizing?Are there ‘bad’ kinds of moralizing? If so, does understanding morality as the product of evolutionary processes (of the biological and cultural kind) reveal why ‘bad’ moralizing has so persistently existed and allow us to sort out the ‘bad’ from the ‘good’?

Biologist is building general robots in order to better understand biological evolution.