Tag: Learning

October 8, 2024

Mismatch Between Our Biologically Evolved Educative Instincts and Culturally Evolved Schools

Children are designed, by natural selection, to educate themselves. It is time we let them.

April 20, 2012

Are Taboos Adaptive? Evidence from the Island of Fiji

Are taboos ignorant superstitions, do they contain adaptive wisdom, or are they a mixture of both?

September 25, 2012

Play, Stress, and the Learning Brain

An extraordinary number of species—from squid to lizards to humans—engage in play. But why?

June 18, 2013

Free To Learn: Does The Hunter-Gatherer Style Of Education Work?

There is no lack of criticisms against our education system, but why would a psychologist advocate for a return to Pleistocene era principles?

April 24, 2014

Evolutionary Approaches to Early Education

Some things that the public has been sold on as enhancing early childhood development may be having the opposite effect.

May 1, 2014

The Evolved Mind In The Modern School

May 15, 2014

Is The Ability To Learn Language Different From The Ability To Learn Math?