This View of Life
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Mothers can adjust the sex of their unborn children to best match their living conditions, research shows.

If we examine puzzling visual illusions we can get an idea of how the brain normally does its work.

What we need is a plant able to produce more with a given amount of water.

Given the tension between our evolved tribalism and the global collective action problem of managing our planet, how can we hope to avoid the climate tipping point?

We apply the same facial judgments to cars as we do to human faces.

my advice to those idealistic students after my own tortured career in interdisciplinary environmental science.

Decolonization not only requires greater inclusion of marginalized knowers, but it also requires that systems are put in place that enable and fund Indigenous-led and conceptualized research and policy-making processes.

Google Earth technology for looking at cells.

A new discovery by Matt Friedman at Oxford University is providing paleontologists with clues to the flatfish’s seemingly unsolved history.

A modern understanding of human cultural evolution reveals the conventional laissez-faire view of entrepreneurship as too simple.

Researchers increasingly seek to examine the evolution of complex political, economic, and social systems from many perspectives, yet politicians and others may be tempted to reduce dynamic systems to one or two variables.

Both liberal and conservative narratives about regulation are like prisons that confine reasonable people to predetermined choices. A new narrative based on the biological concept of regulation can set us free. Regulation is one of the most charged words in politics. If you’re a conservative, then you’re likely to think that regulation is a bad thing that erodes personal responsibility and prevents the free enterprise system from working its magic.