This View of Life
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The most spectacular mutation in recent human history.

A strange example of co-operative behaviour in arachnids.

Science is supposed to challenge this type of quasi-mystical subjective experience, to provide an antidote to it.

A very real phylogeny of the very fake Pokémon creatures.

The biggest creatures to ever walk the Earth had brains smaller than ours.

Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then transporting it into our human past.

Fuxianhuia protensa is an ancient arthropod from the Yunnan Province of China that has scientists rethinking the evolutionary history of insects.

Men’s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution.

Over forty top scientists discuss the topic of cultural evolution.

Abraham Lincoln may fairly be described as post-Christian.

he new and highly controversial discipline cliodynamics is the most recent attempt to transform history into science.

Can examining how inequality began in a hunter-gatherer society teach us how to fairly share the costs and consequences of how we use diminishing natural resources?