This View of Life
Magazine

Understanding the evolution of consciousness provides the scaffolding for evolutionary science itself to consciously evolve, and to help human individuals and groups do so as well.

In particle physics, the mere act of looking at an electron changes its direction of movement. Could observing primates also change the outcome of what is observed?

The current anti-vaccination movement is a result, in part, of the innate cognitive biases inherent in our nervous systems that evolved to deal with problems in a very different premodern world.

Mismatches are an inevitable consequence of evolution in changing environments, but some mismatches call for preventative measures to preserve what we value.

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.

New research challenges the idea that girls who grow up in households without a father tend to start their periods earlier than girls whose fathers live with them.

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.